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Politics
Reform’s £72m crypto weekend exposes Labour’s failure of nerve on donations
Two billionaires now account for more than four-fifths of all the money Reform UK has ever raised. Andy Burnham had a chance to cap it last week – and didn’t take it.
Camden’s continuity candidate is exactly what Polanski needs
Labour’s selection process for Holborn and St Pancras wasn’t a choice. It was control freakery dressed up as democracy – and Zack Polanski should be thanking them for it.
A party history that flinches from its subject
The Green Socialist, Russel Warfield’s account of the rise of the Green Party and Zack Polanski, is strong on reportage and weak on judgement.
Labour’s Starmer problem isn’t over – Clive Lewis just proved it
Weeks before voters in Keir Starmer’s old seat go to the polls, a senior Labour left-winger says the party still hasn’t faced up to what went wrong under his leadership.
The left used to build community. It’s time it started again
Loneliness isn’t just personal, it’s political – and the right is filling the gap the left has left behind. Harry Cross argues the left must rebuild the clubs, halls and spaces where solidarity used to grow.
Burnham’s Labour faces first big test as Polanski eyes Starmer’s old seat
The Green Party leader’s bid for Holborn and St Pancras could become the first real verdict on whether Andy Burnham’s early poll bounce survives contact with actual voters.
Tyneside’s forgotten uprising: how workers took on the state in 1926
Playwright Ed Waugh takes to Newcastle City Library this month to tell the story the school curriculum leaves out – how Tyneside’s rank and file organised against the state during the General Strike.
The British left is bigger than it thinks
Harry Cross argues that the left’s activist base is far larger than its critics – and its own doubters – assume and warns against internalising decades of hostile caricature as a besieged minority.
The Greens don’t have a Burnham problem. They have a structure problem
A Burnham bounce and a string of Polanski own goals have put the Greens under pressure. But the party's deeper problem is a structure built for consensus, not confrontation – and a conference clash over defence spending is about to test it, says Andrew Hedges.