22+ hour, 7+ min ago   (168+ words) TUC general secretary Paul Nowak rejected comparisons between billionaire donations to Reform UK and trade union funding of Labour today. Mr Nowak said there is a “world of difference” between “a care worker or someone working in a car plant…...

23+ hour, 23+ min ago   (434+ words) THE record-breaking sums donated to Reform UK by two super-rich cryptocurrency speculators make it urgent to develop a mass-appeal politics of the millions, not the millionaires. The gap between Burnham’s stated project — correcting a wrong course he says Britain has…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (419+ words) CAMDEN Council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali has been chosen as the Labour candidate for the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. She will seek to defend the seat abandoned by former premier Sir Keir Starmer, in spite of his promises to serve…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (518+ words) THE furious reaction from Israel and its British supporters shows how significant the penalties announced by Ed Miliband this week really are. They also demonstrate the hypocrisy of right-wing politicians who continue to mouth support for a “two-state solution” while…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (909+ words) LABOUR finally got serious about tackling Israeli aggression today as new Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced a landmark ban on trade with illegal settlements in the West Bank. He also made a government acknowledgement — “overdue,” as he conceded — that Israel’s…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1270+ words) Deprivation is a fundamental factor in criminal behaviour that must be addressed but, KENNY MacASKILL argues, there needs to a major rethink in sentencing to tackle overcrowding DOUG NICHOLLS says the parasitic finance markets must be challenged or another British…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (843+ words) Some thinkers and authors on the right are openly discussing the possibility that the historically successful party of the British ruling class may be exhausted, writes KEITH FLETT ROB WARZYNIAK wades knee deep through a pile of ‘dead canaries’ of…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (399+ words) But campaigners say more must be done BLOCK all arms and trade from going to Israel, campaigners demanded today as Ed Miliband indicated he would move to sanction illegal West Bank settlements. The Foreign Secretary promised to “reset” the government’s…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (499+ words) ANDY BURNHAM, like all politicians who think of themselves as social democrats, is compelled by the logic of the capitalist system to choose between spending which begins to satisfy the legitimate desires, and indeed demands, of working people or meet…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (372+ words) HEALTH unions have launched scathing attacks on First Minister John Swinney’s Programme for Government, branding it a “slash and burn programme for the NHS.” Mr Swinney’s plan for a wide-ranging restructuring of the Scottish public sector comes after his then…...