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Opinion: The Tories Want You to Panic About Sex Education

by Moya Lothian-McLean

Attacks on sex and relationships teaching are a continuation of an ongoing panic that primarily targets LGBTQ+ people, argues Moya Lothian-McLean.

Boris Johnson with hand on forehead, standing at a podium that reads 'Build Back Better'

Analysis: Will the Tory Sleaze Scandal Finally Nix the Party’s Polling Lead?

by Ell Folan

The past month has been one of the worst for the Tories to date. Ell Folan examines the polls to ask whether this is another passing storm, or something more serious.

Analysis: Will the Lib Dems Ever Escape the Shadow of the Coalition?

by Ell Folan

11 years on from their disastrous coalition with the Tories, the Liberal Democrats are still in disarray. Can Scotland help them return to power?

Electionsesh2019

From 9:30pm til 5am Novara Media stayed with you for the GE2019 election results.

GE2019: This Election Campaign Showed the Left’s Power. Win or Lose We Must Continue to Build a Socialist Future

by Grace Blakeley

Whatever happens today, the task of the left over the coming years must be to continue to build up a self-confident socialist movement that understands itself as independent of, though tightly linked to, the Labour party, and with organic links to communities up and down the country, argues Grace Blakeley. Whatever happens today, we are still living through the interregnum between worlds and our choice remains: socialism or barbarism.

GE2019: How Corbyn’s Labour Changed the Minds of Young Scottish Voters

by Lauren Gilmour

Speaking with young Scottish voters, Lauren Gilmour traces how and why their allegiances have switched from the Scottish National Party and independence to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour.

GE2019: Has Nigel Farage’s Climbdown Guaranteed a Tory Win in the South Coast’s Most Brexit Town?

by Natalie Leal

Bognor Regis and Littlehampton voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU in 2016. With the Brexit Party standing down in this election, the Conservatives are expected to win a large majority. But on the ground, nobody seems enthusiastic about this, Natalie Leal reports, with feelings of frustration and helplessness characterising most conversations about politics.

The Bastani Factor: How to Get Brexit Done ✅

Boris Johnson says that if you give him and his Conservative party a majority at the general election he’ll be able to ‘get Brexit done’. But is that actually true?

GE2019: Predatory, Poisonous, Vacuous. To Understand Boris Johnson Start With the Spectator

The Spectator, like Johnson, reveals much that is wrong with British politics, argues Aaron Bastani. Elite capture by the billionaire class; the disintegration of any barrier, and thus accountability, between media and politics; the evacuation of any core values beyond opportunism and self-enrichment; a predatory disposition to the public at large.