Political parties and ideologies
Inclusive, accessible debate covering everything from political history primers to left party analysis to keeping tabs on the evolving far-right
Inclusive, accessible debate covering everything from political history primers to left party analysis to keeping tabs on the evolving far-right
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The Brexit nightmare: a scenario
Tom Walker imagines waking up screaming imagining how a hard-right ascendancy might follow a vote to leave the European Union
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The complicity of the white liberal left in the rise of Donald Trump
There are deep reasons for racism in American politics, but the white liberal left has done little to prevent it, writes Mariama Eversley
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1983: the biggest myth in Labour Party history
Labour’s 1983 election campaign has long been used to say it is impossible for a leader like Jeremy Corbyn to win any election from the left. Alex Nunns digs out the truth
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The changing face of Labour
Josh Holmes speaks to some of the new intake of Labour MPs about a fresh left focus for the party
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Nigel Farage does not exist
Nick Jackson explores how last weekend’s Beyond UKIP Cabaret unmanned and unmasked Nigel Farage – leading to death threats directed at the carnival’s organiser
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Essay: The death of international development
‘Development’ has failed to deliver. The reason, Jason Hickel argues, is that development organisations have failed to address the structural drivers of poverty
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The myth of the 1970s
In the 1970s, they say, the dead lay unburied, greedy unions held the country to ransom and a divided country was impossible to govern, John Medhurst asks: was it really so bad?
