Novara Live: Britain Prepares for Omicron
Omicron is here. Is Britain ready? Plus, we speak to Fatima Hassan in South Africa about how vaccine apartheid left us vulnerable to new variants.
Tag: labour
Opinion: Priti Patel Is Right About One Thing: Our Asylum System Is Fundamentally Broken
Zoe Gardner
Without safe ways to come to the UK, migrants will keep drowning in the Channel, writes Zoe Gardner.
Report: The Inside Story of Keir Starmer’s Farcical Diversity Audit
Oliver Eagleton
As Black Lives Matter drove a clamour for institutional change in 2020, Labour promised to respond. A year later, party insiders speak of union busting and double-standards in the name of diversity. Oliver Eagleton reports.
Opinion: Austerity May Be Over, but the Tories Still Aren’t Spending Enough
James Meadway
With this year's budget, the Tories may have ended austerity, but the spending increases they are proposing aren't nearly enough to undo the damage they have wrought through a decade of brutal cuts.
Opinion: The Supply Chain Crisis Is Exposing Tory Divisions
James Meadway
Recent public spats over how to manage the ongoing supply chain crisis speak to far deeper ideological conflicts within the Tory government, argues James Meadway.
Novara Live: Starmer Rejects Corbyn Legacy in Conference Speech
Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial break down Keir Starmer's conference speech.
Novara Live: Keir Starmer Rigs the Rules
Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar discuss Keir Starmer's contempt for democracy and other conference news.
Novara Live: Labour Prepare for Battle in Brighton
Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar preview Labour Party Conference 2021.
Is Labour a Lost Cause for Socialists?
For five years socialists in Britain united under the project of electing a Labour government with Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister. Since that project failed, Labour has been taken over by a new leader who has stripped the party of ideology and is rigging the rules so that the left will never have influence again.
Novara Live: Revolt Against Starmer’s Anti-Democratic Leadership Rules
Starmer's attempt to rig the rules for any future leadership challenge is facing a backlash from trade unions, party activists and left-wing MPs. We speak to NEC member Lara McNeil.
Feature: A Labour Council Just Greenlit the Social Cleansing of Bangladeshi Brick Lane
Maliha Reza
The Truman Brewery development, waved through by two Labour councillors earlier this month, will further erode the Bangladeshi and Bengali communities’ relationship with the party, writes Maliha Reza.
Novara Live: The Great British Gas Crisis
#TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
Novara Live: Starmer & Evans Prepare for Stitch up at Labour Conference
The first real Labour conference with Keir Starmer as leader will pitch party bosses against the left. Is there any hope of preventing a stitch up?
Novara Live: Labour Lead Tories for First Time Since January
A YouGov poll has shown Labour in front of the Conservatives for the first time since January after an unpopular hike to national insurance. Has Johnson blown it, and can Starmer take advantage?
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.
Analysis: Forget Party Politics. For Unite’s New Boss, Organising Is the Top Priority
Conrad Landin
Sharon Graham's shock victory in the Unite leadership election signals the union is moving away from party politics to embrace workplace organising - a move that could truly transform labour relations in Britain.
Opinion: Labour’s Universal Credit Revamp Is a Step Backwards, Not Forwards
Will Stronge
Instead of fiddling with the technical details of the current universal credit system, the Labour party must embrace the opportunity to set out a new vision for a genuinely progressive welfare settlement.
Opinion: The North Has Always Been at the Cutting Edge of Culture
Kojo Koram
Forget the stereotypes, red wall voters aren’t inherently culturally conservative. The north has always pioneered culture.