Cruel Britannia
The brutal 500-year history of English violence in Europe.
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The cost of net zero in the town that steel built
Labour’s climate push risks leaving Scunthorpe behind.
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Can Labour’s £315m school breakfast plan save a generation?
Without supporting the 900,000 children below the poverty-line who are ineligible for free lunchtime food, the policy risks being undermined.
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Class war: the battle over private schools
Labour must recover its radical tradition and close Britain’s education privilege gap.
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Did the Tories create modern Britain?
A revisionist history claims the postwar consensus was shaped by Conservative visions.
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The left is waking up to the immigration crisis
Keir Starmer’s relaunch speech was a belated recognition of a collective political madness.
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The rise of machinepolitik
In this era of raw power, Labour must find a new statecraft.
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Keir Starmer must remember his mission
During the election, Labour promised to empower Britain. Now is the time to make that happen.
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Britain needs this assisted dying bill
My brother took his own life while suffering with kidney cancer. No one with a terminal illness should have that…
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The spectre of Winston Churchill
The great wartime leader continues to haunt British politics and identity.
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Zionism’s long 20th century
With the Middle East in flames, Britain’s relationship with Israel will transform again.
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What is Starmer’s story?
England’s summer riots have violently exposed the failure to resolve our national question.
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Keir Starmer’s hard road ahead
Labour’s project to rebuild Britain is serious – but the odds are stacked against them.
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How to fix a nation
As the country enters a new political era, leading thinkers explain what Labour must do to rebuild a broken Britain.
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Reform of the legal system is imperative
Those who aspire to lead must embody the seven principles of public life.
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A left-wing vision for a post-Brexit Britain
We should engage with the Global South and ease migration restrictions from Commonwealth countries.
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Liberate the regions
The government must empower regional mayors and place devolution at the core of its plans.
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Solving the “labour question”
A Keir Starmer government should boost the economic power of working people.
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Today’s health service is a travesty of what it used to be
The Conservatives have subjected the NHS to the most savage funding squeeze in its history.
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Confronting the crisis of the commons
Britain has become a society that denies the most basic obligations we have towards one another.
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