
‘They think it’s all over. It is now!’ Tories think Election final whistle has blown
As the election draws closer, one thing is becoming ever clearer, the Conservatives have resigned themselves, not only to defeat, but a big defeat.

As the election draws closer, one thing is becoming ever clearer, the Conservatives have resigned themselves, not only to defeat, but a big defeat.

A look at the biggest political drama of the week as the election campaign reaches the halfway stage.

The biggest Punch-and-Judy spectacles of the election campaigning this week.

A look at the biggest gaffes, rows, fiascos and strategies during the first full week of general election campaigning.

For many right-wing politicians and their media allies, ‘welfare cheats’ is a line that bears endless repetition.

Providing little in context or critical analysis, the right-wing monopoly of our print media poses real problems for democracy, as news with a reactionary and conservative political bias dominates the popular discourse.

In a bid to see-off more humiliating defections, there is likely to be more of the same desperation to get flights to Rwanda off the ground, more speeches littered with US-imported culture war rhetoric, and still more pledges to control spending to pave the way for tax cuts from the Prime Minister.

Under our winner-takes-all system, in tight seats, voters could well hold their noses and cast their ballot for a candidate with the best chance of winning, just to deliver a knock-out blow for the Tories.

A Trump return which not so long ago felt inconceivable, feels like peering into a deep abyss which could have a profound impact on Britain.

‘This should end Ben Habib’s career. It won’t. But in any rational universe it would’