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Opinion: The Tories Want to Increase Military Spending During a Cost of Living Crisis

James Meadway

As rising military spending starts to put pressure on domestic public services, we must reject the idea that ordinary people should shoulder the cost of war and other crises, writes James Meadway.

Prime minister Boris Johnson visits Carland Cross Windfarm to see the construction of a new solar farm ahead of the G7 Summit in Cornwall

Opinion: Three Things the Tories Could Easily Do to Slash Living Costs

James Meadway

The Tories claim the cost of living crisis is beyond their control, writes James Meadway. They’re lying.

Novara Live: Downing Street Staff Leave Johnson’s Sinking Ship

Boris Johnson's attempt to "shake up" Number 10 has turned into a mass exodus. What's the story behind the Downing Street Meltdown?

Anti-government demonstrators hold a poster representing a coffin of a victim of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with the message "30,000 deaths, so what?", during a protest named "Amazonas for Democracy" in Manaus, Brazil

Analysis: Ending Vaccine Apartheid Won’t End the Pandemic

James Meadway

It is vital that rich countries in the global north share the vaccines we have hoarded if we are to effectively manage the pandemic, writes James Meadway. But vaccination is only one part of the solution.

Analysis: When Will the ‘Great Resignation’ Turn Into the Great Strike?

James Meadway

Nearly a million people in Britain switched jobs over the summer as part of a global wave of resignations. But if we really want to transform the way we live and work, individual acts of refusal aren't enough, writes James Meadway.

Opinion: Coronavirus Isn’t Going Anywhere

James Meadway

The Omicron variant is just the latest reminder that Covid-19 is here to stay. The left must strategise accordingly, writes James Meadway.

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Opinion: Vaccine Passports Are Still an Awful Idea

James Meadway

With coronavirus cases rising, the government could still introduce vaccine passports in England - a decision that comes with major implications for our privacy and freedom, writes James Meadway.

Novara Live: What’s in Rishi Sunak’s 2021 Budget?

Rishi Sunak's budget may have come with some big spending pledges, but it's nowhere near enough to undo a decade of austerity.

Novara Live: Boris Johnson Hails Higher Wages at Tory Conference

At Tory party conference Boris Johnson is promising higher wages in a post-brexit Britain. How seriously should we take the pledge?

Boris Johnson’s Tory Party and the Blue Wall

The last two years of Boris Johnson’s leadership have been defined by a heady mix of disaster and triumph: Brexit, a landslide election victory, a catastrophic pandemic, by-election wins and one surprising loss. What makes Johnsonism different from the Conservatism of yesteryear, and what’s coming next?

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer laughs with deputy party leader Angela Rayner whilst on the election campaign trail in Birmingham.

Opinion: The National Insurance Hike is Class Warfare. Why Won’t Labour Say So?

James Meadway

This mask-off moment is an opportunity for Labour to dispel the myth of the Tories as the party of workers. Instead all we're getting are mealy-mouthed, half-hearted critiques, argues James Meadway.

Opinion: Workplace Struggles and Plans for Government Must Go Hand in Hand

James Meadway

Unite’s new general secretary Sharon Graham has promised to prioritise industrial struggle over internal Labour politics. This is a good thing, argues James Meadway – but the post-Corbyn left shouldn't altogether turn its back on aspirations of running the country.

Prime minister Boris Johnson in a white labcoat and protective goggles, holding up a vial of the coronavirus vaccine

Analysis: Vaccine Passports Aren’t Just Unfair, They Don’t Work

James Meadway

With vaccines only halving transmission, Boris Johnson risks incentivising superspreader events where variants flourish, argues James Meadway.

A pile of silver and gold coins embossed with the logos of various cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin.

Analysis: Bitcoin’s Wild Fortnight Is a Reminder of Why Crypto Won’t Replace Conventional Currencies Any Time Soon

James Meadway

Elon Musk might have changed his mind on bitcoin, but China hasn’t. It's a reminder, writes James Meadway, that whatever the whims of billionaires, cryptocurrencies remain at the mercy of central banks.

Analysis: Scramble for the Arctic: How Greenland Became the Frontier of a New Trade and Tech War

James Meadway

Leftist anti-mining party Inuit Ataqatigiit has won Greenland’s snap election. But with international mining companies keen to exploit the island’s vast deposits of rare earth minerals, it is nonetheless emerging as a key battleground in a new great power competition over essential raw materials, writes James Meadway.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson with Sir David Attenborough talk to school children at the Science Museum for Launch of the UK hosting of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26)

Analysis: So Far, the Tories’ ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ Is Pure PR. This Year They Have an Opportunity to Change That

James Meadway

A net-zero target with no plan to meet it, billions of re-announced funding - when will we start seeing the substance behind the rhetoric? Possibly at November's climate conference, writes James Meadway.

person holding fake covid passport

Analysis: Vaccine Passports Could Be a Dystopian Nightmare

James Meadway

What seems like a sensible measure could be a slippery slope to a social credit system. We must not sleepwalk into more unregulated, opaque data collection, writes James Meadway.

Rishi Sunak laughing

Analysis: 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, writes James Meadway.

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