Novara Live: OFOC Off to Love Island
On this episode of #TyskySour, Michael is joined by Shelly Asquith to talk about @OFOCBrexit, Labour Live and #LoveIsland.
Tag: labour
All The Best: “If a Career Is All That Matters to You, Then Why the Hell Would You Choose Politics?”
Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin are joined by journalist, commentator and socialist firebrand Ellie O’Hagan, whose insights on political matters du jour fizz like a Lush bath bomb
4 Reasons Heathrow Expansion Serves the Few, Not the Many
Calum Harvey-Scholes and Matthew Tehanu
Plans for a third runway at Heathrow are being voted on by parliament in June. While the Tories are backing the proposal, Labour have prevaricated on taking a position. Here are four reasons Heathrow expansion only serves a wealthy elite - and why it’s high time Labour took a stand against it.
Novara FM: Anti-Politics: State, Authority, Ideology
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Eliane Glaser to discuss her new book 'Anti-Politics', and the attitude of the contemporary left to the key questions of political power and the state.
Lewisham East Shows How Corbynism Has Transformed Labour
Aaron Bastani
On Saturday Janet Daby beat Sakina Sheikh and Claudia Webbe to become Labour’s candidate for Lewisham East. Over the short span of the campaign it became clear just how much has changed in the party - and what remains to be done, argues Aaron Bastani.
Novara Live: A Disaster With Owen Jones’ Name on It
On this episode of TyskySour Michael Walker is joined by newly elected Labour councillor for Wandsworth Aydin Dikerdem. They’ll be taking apart the local election results.
Novara FM: Local Election Results
Michael Walker, Dawn Foster and Richard Seymour take a look at the local election results.
Novara FM: After Windrush: Britain and Migration
On #NovaraFM, James Butler, Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar look at the politics of the recent Windrush crisis, the history of migration policy in the UK, and ask: what could a left-wing migration policy look like?
Migration Focus: A Progressive Immigration Policy?
If we get a left-wing Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn, they will have an immigration system, and what that will look like matters - for migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. Maya Goodfellow discusses how we might get there.
IMOBastani: Theresa May Must Resign
Windrush Brits are being detained and deported and it is a disgrace. When will Theresa May have the dignity to resign? For more articles, videos and podcasts as part of our migration focus head to novaramedia.com/focus/migration
Interview: Interview With Owen Jones
“The main thing I’ve learned from working in the British media is that much of it is a cult. Afflicted by a suffocating groupthink, intolerant of critics, hounds internal dissenters, full of people who made it because of connections and/or personal background rather than merit.” The above tweet from Owen Jones set off an inferno […]
Socialism at Home Is Not Enough – It’s Time for a Corbynite Foreign Policy
Barnaby Raine
Foreign and domestic policy were once entangled in the minds of the much of the left. It’s time Corbyn used the opportunity of his leadership to be bold with his anti-imperialist principles, argues Barnaby Raine.
All The Best: ATB: Stick Your Bipartisanship up Your Arse
Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin explore the phenomenon of issues being “politicised” by political parties in the mother of all Parliaments, and politicians who politicise events complaining when Jeremy Corbyn responds in kind. Enjoy and take care
Interview: Interview With Laura Parker (Momentum)
Aaron Bastani sits down with Momentum’s National Coordinator Laura Parker.
Tackling the Mental Health Crisis Means Defeating Neoliberalism Once and For All
Jay Watts
Labour needs to get radical, resisting the cross-party agreements on mental illness which foreclose the reality that though we may ‘all have mental health’ the chance of us breaking down are deeply indexed to our relative place in society.
Novara Live: Labour: Who’s the Boss?
On this emergency TyskySour Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker discuss who will be the next general secretary of the Labour Party after the riotous resignation of Iain McNicol.
Labour’s Next General Secretary Must Be Elected
Aaron Bastani
Iain McNicol's resignation immediately raises the question of his successor. McNicol's term became defined by opposition to internal democracy where it involved new members, which is why the next general secretary needs to be elected.
Britain’s Newspapers Are Waging Psychological Warfare Against the Public
Aaron Bastani
Disinformation, ambiguity and unsupported smears like the Corbyn spy claims aren’t features of a healthy media - they’re tactics of psychological warfare waged against the British public.