Opinion: Why Should Homeowners’ Safety Trump Everyone Else’s?
Rivkah Brown
Michael Gove is protecting “innocent leaseholders” from flammable cladding – but he’s happy for the rest of us to burn, writes Rivkah Brown.
Tag: tories
Novara Live: Tories Plot to TOPPLE Boris Johnson As MP Defects to Labour
#TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.
Novara Live: Johnson’s Hollow Apology for Lockdown Party
Boris Johnson has admitted attending a lockdown party, but won't stop repeating his ridiculous excuses. Is it now time up for the PM?
Novara Live: Boris Johnson’s Secret Texts
Newly revealed whatsapp messages between Boris Johnson and a party donor raise fresh questions about Tory corruption. Will incessant sleaze scandals bring the PM down?
Opinion: Shoplifters of the World, Unite!
Seth Wheeler
Ever stolen Christmas presents for your family? You stand in a long tradition of working-class pilfering – but proletarian shopping could be stronger with collective organisation, argues Seth Wheeler.
Analysis: The Polls Look Terminal for Boris Johnson
Ell Folan
Following accusations of a Downing Street Christmas party during the last winter lockdown, the Conservative party and its leader have plunged in the polls. Ell Folan asks whether either will survive.
Novara Live: Crushing Defeat for Johnson As Lib Dems Win Byelection
A massive byelection upset in North Shropshire has shown England's anger at Boris Johnson. Is it a fatal blow to his authority as PM? With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.
Novara Live: The Tory Plan to Privatise the NHS
Tomorrow MPs will vote on Sajid Javid's Health and Care Bill. Does it threaten to privatise the NHS by the back door? We speak to Dr Bob Gill.
Downstream: The Capitalist War Being Waged on Disabled People
Ellen Clifford speaks to Michael Walker about her book “The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of Human Catastrophe”, including an explanation of the Social Model of Disability, the history of the Disabled People’s Movement, and the disastrous consequences of austerity policies.
Novara Live: Chaos in Westminster As Johnson’s Second Jobs U-Turn
In another desperate U-Turn Boris Johnson has accepted there should be a limit put on MP's second jobs. His backbenchers aren't best pleased. Will Johnson's out-of-touch MPs lock in Westminster sleaze?
Novara Live: The Senior Tory MP With the Most Outrageous Side Job
#TyskySour returns this evening with Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.
Novara Live: Johnson Under Pressure As Tory Corruption Scandal Deepens
As MPs debate Tory corruption, Boris Johnson is under increasing pressure to clean up parliament. How do we make MPs honest, & should we abolish the House of Lords?
Opinion: The Tories’ New ‘Community-Powered’ Plan Is a Cynical Power Grab
Bertie Russell, Keir Milburn & Kai Heron
The Tories' recent proposal for a new era of 'community-powered Conservativism' is an audacious, though ultimately hollow, bid to park tanks on the left's lawn.
Novara Live: Corruption Runs Through the Veins of the Tory Party
Threats to withdraw funding from rebel MPs' constituencies, a potential peerage for Paterson and the PM refuses to come clean on lavish getaways. It's just another week for a government rotten to the core.
Novara Live: Shameless Tories Rig Rules to Protect Corrupt MP
Tory MP Owen Paterson was found to have breached MP lobbying rules by an independent standards committee. The Tory response: abolish the committee and replace it with a new one.
Novara Live: Johnson’s Nasty Cut Trashes Promise to “Level Up”
Boris Johnson's pun-filled conference speech promised to "level up" the country, but on the day that millions are hit by a cruel cut to universal credit, his pitch to workers is a sick joke.
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?