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It is clear what the Chancellor's first priority must be – and that's urgent action on the cost of living.

Politics is a zero-sum game, we are told. That is why no party will touch the triple lock. You don't even need to buy a Tory a pint before they admit, privately, that it is madness. But pensioners vote, so that's that. So when Andy Burnham…

The issue of immigration and asylum dominates British politics. For some commentators, migration is seen as only the concern of Reform voters, and that the government is somehow pandering to them by talking about the issue. That is not the…

Britain needs a fairer economy, genuine public control over life's essentials, and a decent chance in life for our young people.

Liam Evans asks of the left: Where is the dream? Where is the ambition? Where is the imagination?

We can all beat Reform. And all it will cost is a pound.

Andy Burnham has promised greater public control over the essentials. That must mean taking control of housing back from slum landlords.

The Employment Rights Act will level stop decent employers who do right by their staff being undercut by the bad ones.

One morning Satan slid into my LinkedIn DMs. Using a male human name and concealing his reptilian form behind the screen, he said I could get paid hundreds of pounds per hour to train AI to do my job. “Not today, “James"”, I replied, typing…

Burnham has started to bring progressive voters back to Labour. Now to unite them with those who voted Labour in the past but now favour Reform.

It was in Congress House, headquarters of the Trades Union Congress, that Andy Burnham became leader of the Labour Party last week – elected in a special conference that paved the way for him to become our Prime Minister. Andy pledged to…

Let Labour women be allowed to be real, not just by men, but by other women too, and most importantly: by themselves.