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Referendum has nothing to offer
07 Jun 2012
Neither Scottish independence nor British unionism. Sarah McDonald looks at the launch of the "Yes" campaign
Lowering the stakes
18 May 2023
Starmer’s promise to be ‘New Labour on steroids’ is not about being exciting, but boring. Eddie Ford offers some thoughts on mainstream politics
Powers hidden in reserve
04 May 2023
This Saturday, says Eddie Ford, should remind us that the role of the monarchy is not only about pomp, circumstance and providing popular entertainment
Cheap shots, great and small
20 Apr 2023
Controversy over Starmer’s attack ads shows up the increasing emptiness of bourgeois political debate, argues Paul Demarty
Yet more lies
13 Apr 2023
The Tories are way behind in opinion polls and have therefore turned to culture war issues such as trans people and further curbing free speech. Mike Macnair eviscerates what passes for their arguments
Driving a dead man out
06 Apr 2023
Kevin Bean asks what lies behind Sir Keir and the NEC barring Jeremy Corbyn from standing as an official Labour candidate in Islington North
A fruitless crown
23 Mar 2023
The contest to replace Nicola Sturgeon has proved unexpectedly fraught. Scott Evans reports on a movement that has run out of options
Let’s be beastly to foreigners
16 Mar 2023
The Illegal Migration Bill is the opening shot of the Tory general election campaign, writes Eddie Ford
Victory for pundits’ union
16 Mar 2023
The BBC’s brief ‘free speech’ war with Gary Lineker shows up its own institutional weakness - and the strange moral situation of football itself - argues Paul Demarty
Made for each other
09 Mar 2023
Kevin Bean looks beyond Tory faux outrage about Sir Keir appointing Sue Gray as chief-of-staff, and asks what it means for the prospects of the official left
Stupidity and score-settling
09 Mar 2023
What was Matt Hancock thinking about when he handed a vast trove of WhatsApp messages over to a notoriously mercenary journalist? Paul Demarty looks over the ‘lockdown files’
Sturgeon’s final straw
02 Mar 2023
Have we reached ‘peak SNP’? Is the dream of Scottish independence now fading? Eddie Ford reports on the leadership battle and continuing culture wars
Sunak’s Brexit deal
02 Mar 2023
English sausages and Stilton cheese have little to do with the Windsor Framework. Kevin Bean looks at the wider strategic context
Chosen by Labour right
16 Feb 2023
Tina Werkmann gives the inside story of how Jared O’Mara was selected, how he beat the odious Nick Clegg and how he quickly spiralled into a mental health crisis. Clearly he needs help, not a four-year prison sentence
Getting out the big stick
16 Feb 2023
As part of their war against the ‘economically inactive’, the Tories want to scapegoat and harass, writes Eddie Ford
Stoked by government ministers
16 Feb 2023
Kevin Bean reports on the Knowsley riot, its causes and the inadequacies of the economistic left’s responses