The Green Party's stunning victory in Gorton and Denton—overturning a 13,000-vote Labour majority in a seat held since 1931—represents a crystallization of social democracy's structural crisis under neoliberalism. Hannah Spencer's victory speech, emphasizing how 'working hard used to get you...
This live blog captures a significant moment in British left politics: Jeremy Corbyn's faction securing control of Your Party's central executive committee with 14 of 21 seats, while simultaneously documenting a three-way battle between Labour, Greens, and Reform UK in the Gorton and Denton...
The formation of institutional ties between the New York Young Republican Club, Afrikaner nationalist organizations, and European far-right parties represents a significant development in transnational reactionary politics. This network operates through conferences, galas, and direct lobbying of...
This case of Reform UK escaping sanctions for distributing 81,000 anonymous leaflets—disguised as coming from a 'concerned neighbour'—reveals how bourgeois legal systems operate differently for different class actors. The party admitted to the violation, yet the court granted relief based on the...
This parliamentary debate on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's role as trade envoy exposes the deep interpenetration of aristocratic privilege, political power, and capital accumulation in the British state. The allegations—that Jeffrey Epstein attempted to leverage royal connections for personal...
The potential rollback of routine childhood vaccine recommendations represents a stark manifestation of neoliberal governance reaching its logical conclusion: the systematic dismantling of collective public health infrastructure in favor of individualized risk and privatized care. The Advisory...
The confrontation between Martin Lewis and Kemi Badenoch on morning television illuminates deeper contradictions within Britain's debt-financed higher education system—a system that emerged from neoliberal restructuring and now generates crises that even its architects struggle to manage. The...
The UK government's Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) reforms reveal a fundamental contradiction between stated goals and material constraints. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson claims these changes would be necessary 'even if money were no object,' yet the reforms are...
This Guardian investigation reveals a fundamental contradiction between the Trump administration's stated justification for mass deportation—targeting 'the worst of the worst' violent criminals—and the material reality: 77% of those entering deportation proceedings in 2025 had no criminal...