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Politics
Taking the win isn’t selling out
Andy Burnham’s Labour conference speech handed the left real gains and real fights. Crying betrayal squanders both – and says more about the critics than the prime minister.
Why the Green left keeps repeating Labour’s mistakes
The Greens have inherited the space Corbynism left behind. They’re at risk of inheriting its central failure too, says Andrew Hedges.
Polanski lost Holborn and St Pancras, but the Green surge isn’t over
Defeat in Holborn and St Pancras caps a damaging week for Zack Polanski. But a 22-point rise and Labour’s slimmest-ever majority there show the forces behind the Green advance remain.
Greens pass “Zionism is racism” motion as amendments fall
Green party members voted by 1,022 to 813 to declare Zionism a form of racism and back a single democratic state, rejecting three amendments that would have softened the motion.
“Nobody is coming to save us”: Greens’ left asks what it takes to build an ecosocialist party
The Life of the Party podcast brought its live show to Brighton, pitting ecosocialism against ecopopulism and urging Green members to organise, stand and argue.
“Vote Green and watch Labour move”: Polanski fires up record Brighton conference
Zack Polanski accused Labour of half measures and timidity as he told the Greens’ largest ever conference that the party had changed the country and must now be bold.
Is the Green party really Britain’s most democratic party?
The Greens like to present themselves as more democratic than their rivals. Look past conference and the picture is far messier, says Andrew Hedges.
Brighton or bust: can the Greens stay radical and still grow up?
A resurgent Labour, a record membership and their leader fighting Keir Starmer’s old seat. This weekend will test whether the Greens can modernise without losing their edge.
From Glad to be Gay to trans rights: Labour must learn its own lessons
Seeing Tom Robinson live took Bryn Griffiths back to Rock Against Racism and the fight against Clause 28. Today, he argues, trans people are on the front line and Labour is failing them.