All the evidence shows voters want Labour to shift to the left — but initial signs from Andy Burnham are worrying on that front, cautions DIANE ABBOTT
IT was like a scene from a second-rate 1970s B movie.
It is a dark, wet and stormy night on a lonely coastal road in Exmoor. A yellow Mazda comes to a halt and two men and a Great Dane dog spill out of the car into the rainy night.
One man has a dark stubby Mauser pistol in his hand. He takes aim and shoots the huge hound dead.
KENNY MacASKILL reminds us of the unprecedented political career of a Scottish miner’s militant son who stayed the course and true to his roots
MAT COWARD tells the story of the eccentric founder of a short-lived but striking experiment in ‘vital democracy,’ who became best known for giving away his estate to the nation
The Congolese independence leader’s uncompromising speech about 80 years of European colonial brutality and injustice went round the world in 1960, and within months, he had been executed by Belgian and CIA-backed forces, writes KEITH BARLOW


