WHEN Labour unveils its manifesto tomorrow we should recall the words of Angela Davis: it is time we stopped accepting the things we cannot change, and started changing the things we cannot accept. There’s a yawning gulf between Labour’s condemnation of the state of Britain after 14 years of Tory-led …
Read More »Offer real change, Corbyn tells Labour
FORMER Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has urged the party to offer real change as it prepares to launch its general election manifesto. Responding to Sir Keir Starmer’s infantile charge that the Tories had prepared “a Jeremy Corbyn-style manifesto,” Mr Corbyn hit back, demanding “a fundamental shake-up of our economic and …
Read More »The UK needs an independent commission against corruption
From the Covid inquiry, to the Royal Mail postmasters and the NHS infected blood scandals, Britain’s fragmented “integrity institutions” have repeatedly shown that they cannot prevent overt corruption and endemic malversation in public office. If a new Labour government is ever to “turn the page” on the the last decade, …
Read More »EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: French magazine uses AI photographs to predict the Royal Family’s future
By Ephraim Hardcastle for the Daily Mail Published: 19:19 EDT, 29 April 2024 | Updated: 19:23 EDT, 29 April 2024 French magazine Paris Match elevates the art of doctored Royal photographs to a new level with a portrait of 72-year-old Kate as Queen Mother in 2054. In a 200-page 75th birthday …
Read More »Bereft of ideas, the entire political class is trapped in a cycle of tax and spend
SIR – Unfortunately I don’t believe Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, when she declares there would be no new wealth taxes under a Labour government (Interview, August 27). This is not because I think she might be lying. I am sure she understands that increasing taxes is a barrier to …
Read More »The Tories prophesying doom should make way for more hopeful candidates
It takes a brave candidate to contest a by-election for any party of government that has been in power for a long time. Stepping in for a charismatic prime minister, toppled by his own colleagues, to fight a tough contest in a corner of a capital city that defaults to …
Read More »Editorial: Jon Cruddas’s plain speaking should prompt a challenge to Starmer’s war on democracy
LABOUR MP Jon Cruddas’s attack on the “witch-hunt” by the “right-wing, illiberal faction” around Keir Starmer is sharper and clearer than previous MPs’ protests at the leader’s conduct. Cruddas speaks out in defence of Neal Lawson, head of the pressure group Compass, who shared his threatened expulsion with the Guardian …
Read More »Starmer urged to visit picket line as Labour members back striking workers
C alls to support striking workers received a standing ovation from Labour members, as a bacon butty was offered to tempt Sir Keir Starmer to visit a picket line. Dave Ward, general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, moved a motion aimed at committing the next Labour government to bringing …
Read More »Labour ditches nationalisation pledge | Morning Star
LABOUR was accused of funnelling public profit to shareholders today after it said that the party would not bring energy, rail and water into public ownership if they won the next election. Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme today that the party had ditched its earlier manifesto ideals …
Read More »Keir Starmer’s sparks Labour revolt with U-turn on renationalisation of railways
She said the Jeremy Corbyn era pledge to bring rail, water, energy and Royal Mail back into public ownership was now unaffordable. Ms Reeves has vowed to fund all day-to-day spending with tax revenues and to bring down Britain’s growing debt mountain. “To be spending billions of pounds on nationalising …
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