The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
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Keir Starmer and the mystery of the missing policies
Will a forthcoming conference on ‘national conservatism’ provide some inspiration for the hapless Labour leader, wonders ANDREW MURRAY
'Commentators are starting to express concern at the absence of any transformative plan coming from the moonlighting police officer leading Labour'
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
Claudia Webbe pays tribute tribute to KANYA KING CBE, February 12 1964 to June 3 2026
The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
SO WHAT is Keir Starmer’s big idea?
You’re thinking this is a trick question. Intellectual explorers have been trekking into the void signposted “Labour thinking” for some time without bringing anything home.
However, commentators are starting to express concern at the absence of any transformative plan coming from the moonlighting police officer leading Labour. What will a Starmer-led Britain look like? Silence echoes.
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ANDREW MURRAY recommends a volume of essays that nail the visionless, racist and neoliberal character of policy under Starmer’s Labour Party
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