As Starmer hints at closer ties, MARTIN HALL warns of the dangers of creeping alignment and calls for a renewed socialist case for independence from Brussels, especially over the EU’s constraints on economic planning

The news that the British government has put trade talks with Canada on hold marks another post-Brexit trade deal coming to nothing — so much for a ‘golden era of trade,’ writes TONY BURKE

SARAH BRIDLE and ALED JONES argue that within the next 10 to 50 years food security in Britain will be undermined and potentially lead to widespread social unrest

From the corn laws to the Irish question, from universal suffrage to Brexit, huge splits inevitably emerge in the Establishment — but these don’t automatically benefit the masses, explains KEITH FLETT

WILL PODMORE appreciates a lucid re-telling of the story of the past decade of Tory rule

SOLOMON HUGHES discovers that supposed grassroots campaigners from Our Future Our Choice and For Our Future’s Sake who helped deliver Labour’s disastrous second referendum policy are now happily ensconced in pro-Brexit-type jobs

Communist Party general secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS asks what are the outstanding questions three years on from Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union

Amid shortages of certain foodstuffs, voices have been raised that a return to the EU might be desirable. BERT SCHOUWENBURG warns that the policies of the European suprastate are no panacea for Britain’s problems

ALAN SIMPSON charts Britain’s descent into dystopian democracy where those echoing the flotilla of falsehoods coming from ministers become the stormtroopers for a government with no other cards to play