Dawn Butler MP: Why Rishi Sunak is not the answer people so desperately need
Rishi Sunak, as a young student joyfully exclaiming that he has no working-class friends. What is wrong with the working class?
Left Foot Forward
Andy Burnham praised for passionately defending unions and striking workers on Question Time
“Don’t blame people who are fighting for their family income at this difficult time.”
‘Sun will close in 6 years’ says former editor blaming ‘lefty activists’
“I was told last week that the management of News UK had looked at the circulation decline of the Sun over the year…
Why the left needs to set out the case for climate optimism
‘There is increasing cause for optimism when it comes to averting the worst effects of the climate crisis.’
COP27 is a failure the world cannot afford
Climate change will not wait for us to act. Every week, month and year we delay the ambitious and unavoidable action we need to take to prevent runaway climate breakdown, the harder it becomes to achieve.
Mick Lynch completely destroys the Daily Mail yet again
“These are the same newspapers that will support the most reactionary elements in our society and indeed the Daily Mail, they supported Adolf Hitler”
What a small Ukrainian city can teach us about how to build thriving communities
This is an important lesson about surviving adversity, building local communities and thriving.
Government spends £770,000 a day to store PPE items in China
“This is absolutely astonishing. £770,000 a day, £280 million a year? What a waste of money which could be used to invest in our NHS.”
Unite calls on Ofgem to cap power distributors’ profits after ‘rampant profiteering’
Distribution network operators have higher profit margins than any other sector in the UK, and expects operators to register profit margins of more than 50% in 2022.
Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of news from progressive publications…