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Politics
Burnham: new style, but what’s the substance?
A month into his premiership, Andy Burnham has ditched Starmer’s stiffness for smiles and popular policies. But on tax, spending and devolution, he’s still playing by rules written to keep markets and donors onside.
Green New Deal Rising opens applications for 2026 leadership programme
A fully-funded scheme is looking for 40 young people to build organising skills and take climate action together. Applications close on Wednesday 9 September.
From pit villages to retail parks: How the working class can win again
Andrew Hedges reviews a new book, published this week, that doubles as a portrait of his own County Durham and argues that the left must learn from Thatcher’s success at ‘subject formation’ if it wants to build one of its own.
Left Field is live – welcome to a new collective voice for the UK left
A new independent platform for grassroots movements, trade unions and left politics launches today – collectively run, with no rich backers and built to cover the stories the mainstream media won’t.
Allez les Bleus, Allez la Gauche: Mélenchon’s France shirt is a masterstroke
La France Insoumise is selling France 2027 campaign shirts disguised as World Cup kits, proving that the left can do populism just as well as the right, if it's bold enough to try.
Group chat blues? Root & Branch offers an antidote
As the left fractures across parties, unions and none, a new platform wants to rebuild the connections WhatsApp groups were never built to hold.
A hidden gem of the political podcast world
Andrew Hedges reviews Culture, Power, Politics, the podcast in which Jeremy Gilbert and Alan Finlayson dissect Andy Burnham’s leadership speech – and find a prime minister still fighting Labour’s battles from the 1990s.
Britain’s oldest plutocracy won’t reform itself – and Burnham probably won’t either
A new report says Britain’s crisis runs deeper than any mainstream politician admits. Andy Walker spoke to its co-author Neil McInroy about what real change would take – and why, without it, Reform wins.
Burnham as Labour leader? So what does it mean for the left?
If Andy Burnham wins the Makerfield byelection and then replaces Keir Starmer as Labour leader, what will it mean for the left? Andrew Hedges considers the issues.