Report: Big Business Donations to Labour Shot up Before Last Election, Analysis Reveals
Simon Childs
Exclusive: Analysis seen by Novara Media reveals how corporations captured politics in the build up to the last election.
Tag: keir starmer
Opinion: How Long Can Keir Starmer Survive Without His Puppetmaster?
Steven Methven
The resignation of the prime minister’s right-hand man is less an honourable move to save Starmer’s legacy, more like a rat leaving a sinking ship, writes Steven Methven.
Opinion: Why Won’t Keir Starmer Sack Morgan McSweeney Over Mandelsongate?
Ash Sarkar
The scandal over Peter Mandelson’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein is threatening to engulf the prime minister. Yet he's unwilling to sacrifice his chief of staff even to save himself, writes Ash Sarkar.
Opinion: The Green Party Is Great, But It’s Not Enough
Candi Williams & Anahita Zardoshti
Zack Polanski has revived hope that the left can turn the tide of British politics. But to actually do that, we need a party that can walk the talk, building working-class power from the ground up, write Your Party leadership candidates Candi Williams and Anahita Zardoshti.
Opinion: Peter Mandelson Should Be Stripped of His Peerage
Harriet Williamson
Labour’s ‘Prince of Darkness’ told Jeffrey Epstein he was ‘trying hard’ to help bankers keep more of their bonuses following requests from the paedophile financier. Tinfoil hats aren’t needed at this stage, writes Harriet Williamson.
Report: ‘We Want to Do the Keir Starmer’: How Labour Is Inspiring a New Anti-Migrant Vigilante Operation
Simon Childs
Raise the Colours was given a tacit endorsement by the prime minister when it raised flags across the country last summer. Now it’s headed to Calais to harass migrants and ‘do the Keir Starmer’. Simon Childs reports.
Feature: Two Palestine Action Hunger Strikers at Risk of Imminent Death
Harriet Williamson
Exclusive: The loved ones of two hunger striking prisoners who are experiencing terrifying symptoms including severe chest pain and difficulty speaking tell Harriet Williamson that they live in constant fear of receiving the worst news.
Opinion: Novara Media’s Best Books of 2025
Aaron Bastani, Rivkah Brown & Steven Methven
From a must-read account of China’s rise to a guide to imaginative time travel - here at Novara Media, we’ve read it all. Aaron Bastani, Rivkah Brown and Steven Methven share their picks of the year.
Opinion: Keir Starmer’s Government Is Leaving the Hunger Strikers to Die
Harriet Williamson
Labour’s year of domestic U-turns and authoritarian crackdowns on protest is topped off by silence and inaction over six Palestine Action hunger strikers - whose lives seem to matter less than an Israeli weapons company’s right to operate on British soil, argues Harriet Williamson.
Opinion: Scotland’s New Rent Controls Put Starmer’s Measly Reforms to Shame
Gordon Maloney
In September, the Scottish government passed a law limiting how much landlords can raise rents. Labour’s renters’ rights bill is a joke by comparison, writes Gordon Maloney.
Analysis: Israel Is Dragging Us All to Hell
Steven Methven
Two years on from 7 October, Israel is falling - and we in the West are all falling with it. Yet our governments refuse to untether us from its descent, writes Steven Methven.
Feature: How Can Labour Win Over the Flag Protesters? We Asked Them
Rivkah Brown
Out of work, unable to get an NHS appointment and furiously angry at migrants and the government – has Keir Starmer ever spoken to the people he’s trying to win from Nigel Farage? Rivkah Brown did, outside Labour conference in Liverpool.
Report: Labour Is Struggling to Keep Palestine Off Its Conference Agenda
Rivkah Brown
Palestine Action supporters, anti-genocide marchers and pro-Palestine celebrities have disrupted the start of Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, which the party had hoped would be about anything but Gaza. Rivkah Brown reports.
Feature: Meet the Socialist Hoping to Lead Britain’s Biggest Trade Union
Polly Smythe
Andrea Egan wants to turn the 1.3 million-member Unison from a creaking bureaucracy to a vehicle for worker power. Polly Smythe meets her.
Report: A Government Department Cancelled a Charity Bake Sale for Palestine
Rivkah Brown
Ed Miliband’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero cancelled a planned fundraiser after officials accused the charity, Medical Aid for Palestinians, of political lobbying. Rivkah Brown reports.
Opinion: Arrogant and Inept, Keir Starmer’s Hubris Is Blowing Up in His Face
Joe Guinan
Liberals and lobby journalists jubilated last year when the grownups were finally put back in charge. Now, Starmer’s future and indeed Labour’s seem as certain as an iceberg lettuce, writes Joe Guinan.
Analysis: Angela Rayner Was Labour’s Designated Defender of Workers’ Rights. Now She’s Gone, Big Business Is Swooping In
Polly Smythe
Starmer’s recent reshuffle saw two champions of Labour’s flagship workers’ rights legislation leave the frontbench, creating a vacuum that businesses are eagerly filling. Polly Smythe surveys an uneasy landscape from the Trade Union Congress's annual meeting.
Report: Reform Voters Prefer Corbyn to Starmer on Almost Every Metric, New Polling Shows
Rivkah Brown
Reform voters think the new party co-founder is more intelligent, trustworthy, hard-working and principled than the prime minister, suggesting Starmer’s attempts to woo the right aren’t working. Rivkah Brown reports.