Johnson Announces Vaccine Passports for Major Events
#TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.
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Being an Opportunist Has Worked Well for Johnson. Why Not for Starmer?
Samuel Earle
A year on from winning the Labour leadership, Starmer has now lost all momentum.
Imagine Starmer is Polling Badly. Now Times That by Ten
Ell Folan
The data doesn't look bad – it looks terrible.
Even Without the ‘Vaccine Bounce’, Boris Johnson Would Still Be Winning
Samuel Earle
The pandemic has shown just how much the prime minister is able to get away with.
How We Win: The Media
James Schneider
To win the 2020s, we must tell our story. At every opportunity, socialists must make clear, emotional and positive arguments to build support for our solutions, cut through government spin and disarm the culture wars. The final part of the series How We Win.
After All the Hype Over Budget 2021…That’s It?
James Meadway
Rishi Sunak wants to appear radical while cementing the status quo - and unless the left presents an alternative, he will.
Starmer Outflanked by Tories on Corporation Tax
Labour have confirmed that if Rishi Sunak raises corporation tax at next week’s budget, they will vote against it.
The Exit Plan
Boris Johnson delivers his roadmap out of lockdown. Do his plans for students to all return on the 8th March risk a resurgence? With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.
Labour and the Tories Have Reduced Veterans to Instruments in the Culture War
Joe Glenton
Johnson Is to Blame
Boris Johnson has claimed that his government “did everything” they could to protect lives and tackle the coronavirus pandemic. As the death toll exceeds 100,000 people, we explain why Boris Johnson was lying. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
Boris Johnson Ends ‘War on Woke?!’
On Wednesday, shortly after Joe Biden was inaugurated as President of the United States, Boris Johnson said there was ‘nothing wrong’ with being ‘woke’. Yet the signature of the Tories in recent years has been a ‘war on woke’, with MPs and media outriders attacking ideas of social and economic equality while using the term. […]
“This Is the Worst Interview I’ve Ever Seen With a Politician”
Speaking to Good Morning Britain, Health Secretary Matt Hancock gave the worst interview by a politician Aaron Bastani has ever seen. What does it say when after 100,000 people have died a leading politician can get away with such a performance?
Fleecing Britain’s Children
The government have once again been shamed by a footballer for failing Britain’s kids. From a botched schools policy to paltry meals, are the Tories failing a generation? With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
Britain Is Now Fyre Festival
During the Covid pandemic the failures of Britain’s model have become painfully clear, from 80,000 deaths to a test and trace system which isn’t good enough. The latest shambles on free school meals demonstrates that these aren’t the result of a few bad individuals, or random mistakes, but the result of forty years of privatisation […]
Johnson Finally Locks Down
Boris Johnson will tonight finally announce a national lockdown. But with hospitals already under more strain than in March, how much has the delay cost Britain?
No More Tiers Left to Try
On a bumper day in British politics, and a crucial one in the fight against coronavirus, Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss the mounting pressure on hospitals, new restrictions announced by Matt Hancock, school openings being delayed, the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine being approved and Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal passed by parliament
Done Deal
Boris Johnson and Ursula Von Der Leyen have agreed to a UK-EU Trade Deal. Reaching a deal on Christmas eve is a short-term win for Johnson, after a disastrous few days in which he’s overseen a huge spike in Covid deaths and last minute changes to holiday plans. But what will the deal mean for […]
Pariah Nation
A new mutant coronavirus strain means Christmas is cancelled, Britain is locked off from the world, and we might all need strict lockdowns until a vaccine can be rolled out. This is a game-changer. And all while we’re being run a bunch of incompetents. Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss and insane three days in […]