The Lion and the Unicorn revisited – What Starmer can learn from Orwell
Will Grosse looks at what lessons Keir Starmer can take from George Orwell to give Labour a sense of purpose and history to defeat Reform.
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TUC Congress: Paul Nowak challenges Farage and demands windfall tax on banking sector
TUC general secretary Paul Nowak took aim at Nigel Farage and the far-right in his keynote speech at the organisation’s conference in Brighton.
‘Angela Rayner’s treatment shows the double standards that punish the ambition of working class women’
The treatment of Angela Rayner demonstrates that we must confront the double standards that punish working-class ambition.
Andrew Pakes MP: ‘We need blue-collar Labour, not Blue Labour’
Andrew Pakes argues for a skills revolution instead of social conservatism.
Farage ‘wolf in Wall Street clothing’: PM’s speech at Welsh Labour Conference
Read Prime Minister Keir Starmer's address to Welsh Labour Conference in full.
St George’s Day: ‘Labour should take on the challenge of appealing to England’
In a recent and quite bizarre argument, Russian-born ‘comic’ Kisin Konstantin declared that English-born Rishi Sunak wasn’t English because he was a ‘brown Hindu’. Most English people reject ethnic definitions of Englishness but the…
‘To defeat Reform, Labour must re-root itself into its working class base’
Brendan Chilton and John Mills write that Labour must re-root itself in its working class base.
‘Could a second Trump presidency actually be good for Starmer?’
Donald Trump’s second term as US President poses a unique challenge to the Labour government. Trump Redux would have represented a danger to most administrations wanting to protect the British national interest whatever their party…
‘Britain’s first conspiracy theory riots won’t be our last’
“Mother who took her child to a riot in a pushchair pleads guilty to violent disorder”. Rioters had gathered outside a Manchester hotel housing asylum seekers, chanting ‘save our kids’. The headline almost defies explanation: if you were…
‘Callaghan reborn? Why the former PM is the Labour figure Starmer best evokes’
In trying to get a fix on what kind of Prime Minister Keir Starmer will prove to be, commentators have reached for various historical antecedents. Given Starmer once said Harold Wilson was his favourite Labour leader, they have searched for…