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Analysis: A Scandal-Rocked Trump Ally Just Won the Polish Presidency. Believe It Could Happen in Britain

Ana Oppenheim & Ewa Pospieszyńska

Centrist Rafał Trzaskowski thought he had it in the bag. He found out the hard way that rightwing knock-offs are no substitute for an actual programme, write Ana Oppenheim and Ewa Pospieszynska - much like a certain Keir Starmer is also finding out.

Novara FM: How Enoch Powell Explains British Politics’ Rivers of Shit

It's in the water.

Analysis: Keir Starmer, the Rightwing Media Hates You. Get Used to It

Simon Childs

No amount of pandering to rightwingers will make them go easy on the government, writes Simon Childs. So why bother?

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Analysis: Trade Unions Left a Political Vacuum. Now They’re Playing Catch-Up to Fight Off Reform

Polly Smythe

Nigel Farage is only pretending to be a champion of the working class, but pointing out that he’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing won't cut it. Polly Smythe reports on how trade unions ceded ground to Reform - and how they're now planning to fight.

A man carries the dead body of a child as he attends the funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, 3 May 2025. Hatem Khaled/Reuters

Report: Independent MPs Shame Lobby Journalists for Not Doing Their Jobs in the Face of Genocide

Harriet Williamson

Exclusive: The Independent Alliance MPs have delivered nearly 100 handbooks to Westminster journalists suggesting basic questions they could ask Keir Starmer to hold him to account on Gaza. Harriet Williamson reports.

Feature: Labour Wants to Force Banks to Spy on Their Most Vulnerable Customers

Harriet Williamson

Labour’s ‘biggest fraud crackdown in a generation’ involves using artificial intelligence to surveil Britain’s most vulnerable people, while letting the rich and powerful do as they please.

Prime minister Keir Starmer and chancellor Rachel Reeves visit a Jaguar Land Rover factory in Birmingham, April 2025. Kirsty Wigglesworth/Reuters.

Opinion: Why Starmerism Can’t Survive Contact With Reality

Phil McDuff

Our political establishment has given itself a form of brain damage because it’s unable to let go of the Thatcher-Reagan consensus - and we’re now reaping the inevitable rewards, writes Phil McDuff.

Nigel Farage, in a hi-vis jacket, holds his arms in the air behind a podium reading 'Reform Will Fix It.'

Opinion: Voting Labour Won’t Save Us From Reform

Harriet Williamson

Reform UK is standing more candidates than any other party in next month's local elections. But casting a ballot for Labour won't save our communities from far-right creep, writes Harriet Williamson.

Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a visit to the Manufacturing Futures Lab at UCL (University College London), in London, Britain January 13, 2025, as he prepares to launch a plan to harness AI to spur growth and efficiency in the country. HENRY NICHOLLS/Pool via REUTERS

Feature: How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims

Harriet Williamson

Labour is creating a digitised welfare state where biased AI will gobble up data and wreck vulnerable people’s lives by judging them based on their age, marital status and nationality. Harriet Williamson reports.

Opinion: Keir Starmer Is Driving Scotland Towards Independence. The Least He Can Do Is Let Us Go

Adam Ramsay

A chunk of Scottish voters have tended to think that Scotland doesn’t need independence, just a Labour government. But with the party now in power, the tide has turned, writes Adam Ramsay.

Opinion: What Disability Benefit Cuts Reveal About Labour’s Grasp of Economics

Phil McDuff

Ministers have looked at the UK economy in 2025 and concluded that disabled people simply have it too good. Can they be serious? Phil McDuff writes.

Opinion: The Real Reason Behind Starmer’s Military Spending Drive

Khem Rogaly

Keir Starmer’s rearmament agenda is not about security - it’s a bid to appease Donald Trump, writes Khem Rogaly.

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Interview: ‘The Entire Human Rights System Is in Danger’: In Conversation With Francesca Albanese

Sebastian Shehadi

The United Nations rapporteur has broken with institutional convention with her straight-talking manner and willingness to call out Israeli genocide, no matter the personal cost. Sebastian Shehadi sits down with Francesca Albanese.

The strike at Amazon Coventry in November 2023. REUTERS/Carl Recine

Analysis: Labour Said It Would Make Work Pay. Will It?

Polly Smythe

The government's big pitch to workers and trade unions could end up full of loopholes, missed opportunities and bad incentives for bosses. Polly Smythe reports.

Feature: How New Labour Accelerated the Protest Crackdown

Francesca Newton

While Suella Braverman and Priti Patel are remembered as the spearheads of the protest crackdown, writes Francesca Newton, it was Tony Blair who kicked it into a whole new gear.

A head shot of activist Ellen Clifford outside the royal courts of justice.

Feature: Meet the Disabled Activist Taking the UK Government to Court

Harriet Williamson

Ellen Clifford is fighting Keir Starmer's government in the high court to prevent disability benefit cuts. She speaks to Harriet Williamson about the value of disabled life under capitalism, assisted dying and why disabled people threaten the status quo.

Photographs of various gender clinicians surround an image of Donald Trump

Report: Are NHS Workers Bringing Trump-Style Anti-Trans Ideology to the UK?

Rivkah Brown

Several clinicians pivotal to the Cass Review recently addressed the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, a designated anti-trans hate group that shares funding sources with the organisation behind Project 2025. Rivkah Brown reports.

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Opinion: Labour Is Finally Treating Landlords Like the Spoiled Children They Are

Nick Bano

With the recent budget Labour whispered its first words of defiance to the bullying landlord lobby. A little louder for the people at the back, writes Nick Bano.

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Analysis: A Scandal-Rocked Trump Ally Just Won the Polish Presidency. Believe It Could Happen in Britain

Ana Oppenheim & Ewa Pospieszyńska

Novara FM: How Enoch Powell Explains British Politics’ Rivers of Shit

Analysis: Keir Starmer, the Rightwing Media Hates You. Get Used to It

Simon Childs

Analysis: Trade Unions Left a Political Vacuum. Now They’re Playing Catch-Up to Fight Off Reform

Polly Smythe

Report: Independent MPs Shame Lobby Journalists for Not Doing Their Jobs in the Face of Genocide

Harriet Williamson

Feature: Labour Wants to Force Banks to Spy on Their Most Vulnerable Customers

Harriet Williamson

Opinion: Why Starmerism Can’t Survive Contact With Reality

Phil McDuff

Opinion: Voting Labour Won’t Save Us From Reform

Harriet Williamson

Feature: How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims

Harriet Williamson

Opinion: Keir Starmer Is Driving Scotland Towards Independence. The Least He Can Do Is Let Us Go

Adam Ramsay

Opinion: What Disability Benefit Cuts Reveal About Labour’s Grasp of Economics

Phil McDuff

Opinion: The Real Reason Behind Starmer’s Military Spending Drive

Khem Rogaly

Interview: ‘The Entire Human Rights System Is in Danger’: In Conversation With Francesca Albanese

Sebastian Shehadi

Analysis: Labour Said It Would Make Work Pay. Will It?

Polly Smythe

Feature: How New Labour Accelerated the Protest Crackdown

Francesca Newton

Report: Are NHS Workers Bringing Trump-Style Anti-Trans Ideology to the UK?

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Labour Is Finally Treating Landlords Like the Spoiled Children They Are

Nick Bano

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Tag: keir starmer

Analysis: A Scandal-Rocked Trump Ally Just Won the Polish Presidency. Believe It Could Happen in Britain

Ana Oppenheim & Ewa Pospieszyńska

Novara FM: How Enoch Powell Explains British Politics’ Rivers of Shit

Analysis: Keir Starmer, the Rightwing Media Hates You. Get Used to It

Simon Childs

Analysis: Trade Unions Left a Political Vacuum. Now They’re Playing Catch-Up to Fight Off Reform

Polly Smythe

Report: Independent MPs Shame Lobby Journalists for Not Doing Their Jobs in the Face of Genocide

Harriet Williamson

Feature: Labour Wants to Force Banks to Spy on Their Most Vulnerable Customers

Harriet Williamson

Opinion: Why Starmerism Can’t Survive Contact With Reality

Phil McDuff

Opinion: Voting Labour Won’t Save Us From Reform

Harriet Williamson

Feature: How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims

Harriet Williamson

Opinion: Keir Starmer Is Driving Scotland Towards Independence. The Least He Can Do Is Let Us Go

Adam Ramsay

Opinion: What Disability Benefit Cuts Reveal About Labour’s Grasp of Economics

Phil McDuff

Opinion: The Real Reason Behind Starmer’s Military Spending Drive

Khem Rogaly

Interview: ‘The Entire Human Rights System Is in Danger’: In Conversation With Francesca Albanese

Sebastian Shehadi

Analysis: Labour Said It Would Make Work Pay. Will It?

Polly Smythe

Feature: How New Labour Accelerated the Protest Crackdown

Francesca Newton

Feature: Meet the Disabled Activist Taking the UK Government to Court

Harriet Williamson

Report: Are NHS Workers Bringing Trump-Style Anti-Trans Ideology to the UK?

Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Labour Is Finally Treating Landlords Like the Spoiled Children They Are

Nick Bano

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