The North Has Always Been at the Cutting Edge of Culture
Kojo Koram
The reality is miles away from the myth.
Tag: conservatives
Back on the Hard Road: How Stuart Hall Can Help Us Navigate Our Moment
David Wearing
History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Generation Left Might Not Be That Left After All
James Meadway
16-24-year-olds want spending cuts over tax increases.
Universal Credit Is a Symptom of Britain’s Broken Jobs Market
Andrew Fisher
People on UC have jobs, they're just crap ones.
Hancock’s Resignation Shows Just How Much Johnson’s Government Can Get Away With
Samuel Earle
It’s Boris’s world, and we’re just living in it.
Arise Sir Dido, Britain’s Newest Culture Warlord
Sandeep Sandhu
Funding cuts? Third wave? Nah, the NHS’s problem is foreigners, apparently.
The Tories’ Covid-19 Strategy Pits Young and Old Against Each Other
Ameya Tripathi
For the Tories, retaining power is far more important than managing the pandemic.
Cummings’ Inquiry Hearing Was a Chance for Centrists To Do What They Do Best: Rehabilitate Rightwingers
Jamie Medwell
A few mea culpas later and all is forgiven and forgotten.
It’s the Housing Market, Stupid: How Property Became the Battle Line of British Politics
Samuel Earle
Our political landscape has been warped by a single asset.
Attacks on the Arts Are Part of the Tories’ Culture War
Chardine Taylor-Stone
By cutting funding for arts subjects at universities, the Tories could be about to immiserate Britain's arts and culture industry for a generation.
After Big Losses, Labour Must Change Tack or Risk Irrelevancy
James Meadway
The Labour party must change path if it is ever to form a government again.
Proportional Representation Won’t Solve All the Left’s Problems, But We Should Back It Anyway
Ell Folan
Whatever the system, Labour needs to win more votes.
It’s Win or Die for Scottish Labour. So Why Is the Party Fighting to Lose?
Finn Smyth & Coll McCail
Anas Sarwar's charisma may not be enough to bring the party back from the brink today.
Labour Is Bracing Itself for a Rough Ride Next Week. What’s Actually Going to Happen?
Ell Folan
The opposition usually wins big in local elections. Starmer probably won’t.
By Stoking Britain’s Culture War, Boris Johnson is Playing the Long Game
Samuel Earle
The Tories’ grip on society is tightening – and Labour will need more than a bigger Union Jack to stop it.
‘Dodgy Dave’? the Facts on the Greensill Saga. Interview with Gabriel Pogrund
Political scandal no longer seems to cut through, but is the unfolding saga around Max Greensill and David Cameron an exception? On this week’s Downstream Aaron Bastani is joined by Sunday Times journalist Gabriel Pogrund to discuss the implications of a story which is only set to grow.
Why the Tories Keep Winning. Interview With Sam Earle
Excluding Tony Blair’s back-to-back victories, the Conservative Party has governed the UK for all but 18 of the last 100 years. While the media often presents elections as Labour’s to lose, the truth is that Britain is a one party state which occasionally lets the other side have a go in the interest of fairness. […]
Define, Divide and Rule: The Race Report Shows the State is Not Interested in Racial Liberation
Annie Olaloku-Teriba
The race report deliberately misunderstands racism - telling us it is interpersonal, rather than structural, and denying the role of class.