The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism
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A heatwave – now do you believe in global warming?
PETER FROST takes a look at the longer than you might think history of climate change and global warming
Firefighters respond to a large wildfire that has broken out in woodland at Lickey Hills Country Park on the edge of Birmingham on July 18 2022
TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
NASUWT leader MATT WRACK says schools are crying out for serious investment — and there are other immediate changes a new prime minister could and should enact
Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
THE recent heatwave that showed record temperatures across most of Britain and a lot more of the world had one small silver lining.
It did convince some of the ignorant climate change deniers that perhaps global warning is a real phenomenon and not some awful scare story dreamed up by moaner journalists like me.
I, and a lot of other environmentalists, have been banging on about the change in our weather patterns and what they will eventually bring, for decades. Now, a couple of days where it was too hot to go out have made a far more convincing argument.
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