The truth behind Labour’s plans to ‘renationalise’ rail One thing about an incoming Labour government looks great: taking the railways into public ownership. But we won’t actually own the trains, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 29th Sep 2023 A royal turnoff Attendance and viewing figures for the coronation show a slump in support for Charles Windsor, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 22nd Sep 2023 Let's never go ‘full Estonia’ Liz Truss is back as a rebel icon for Tories preparing for a spell in the wilderness — when they return, they may be heralding an all-out ‘flat tax’ assault on our welfare state, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 15th Sep 2023 Starmerism and the Guardian’s sleight of hand A recent article by Claire Ainsley conceals more than it reveals about current Labour thinking, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 08th Sep 2023 Solomon Hughes Fragmented education sector, crumbling schools The hotch-potch of local school management allows central government to pass the buck over the Raac concrete crisis, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 01st Sep 2023 Is Reeves doing a Brown? Is the shadow chancellor’s pledge to ‘not tax the rich’ just a ruse to get into office, which will then be reversed? SOLOMON HUGHES looks to a public spending turnaround in 1998 for possible evidence
Friday 18th Aug 2023 Digital dreams are a techno-nightmare for the NHS SOLOMON HUGHES looks at the multiple IT projects that are currently failing the NHS, and asks why the state doesn’t simply train its own health staff to do the work in-house
Friday 04th Aug 2023 A wake-up call to the true nature of Starmerism There’s a swathe of people now belatedly realising just how right-wing and policy-free Starmer’s Labour now is, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 14th Jul 2023 Sharing the pain Shared ownership is set to be another broken retaining wall in the housing crisis, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 30th Jun 2023 Covid: let’s talk privatisation, not partygate SOLOMON HUGHES laments that the media and the official opposition are more interested in Boris Johnson’s drinking and deceiving than the much larger scandal of deaths in care homes
Friday 23rd Jun 2023 BBC Verify fails to verify its sources Our state broadcaster is so excited about the dangerous fake news coming from the fringes that it has not bothered to fact-check wildly inaccurate Establishment research, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES