The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
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The worst is still to come
The Paddy McGuffun column
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
It’s always difficult to be tasked with writing a weekly political column when your deadline will inevitably mean the result is not known by time of publication.
Thus it was that on Thursday your scribe had been, along with most other commentators, predicting a hung parliament.
But that was to fail to take into account the fact that Ed Miliband has just presided over the worst massacre since George Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, except in this case the good guys lost.
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Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership