Every so often, a political story from abroad lands with a thud that feels uncomfortably familiar. Donald Trump’s promise to hand out $5,000 to every adult American if Republicans hold Congress is one of those moments. It isn’t a policy. It isn’t a programme. It’s a bribe — the kind you reach for when you’ve … Continue reading
Andy Burnham’s first appearance in the Commons as Prime Minister was meant to signal a change of direction. He walked out of Downing Street with the air of a man ready to confront the country’s long‑ignored structural problems — water, energy, transport — the basic machinery of daily life that has been left to rot … Continue reading
A young man is dead, a murderer is jailed, and a police force is under investigation — but the rush to blame an entire faith community is as wrong as it is dangerous. This tragedy demands clarity, restraint and reform, not scapegoating says Pat Harrington. What Happened on Belmont Road Shortly before midnight on 3 … Continue reading
There is a Tony Blair problem. Not because the former Prime Minister still wields real power, but because too many in the political class continue to treat him as a sage rather than as the architect of a settlement that collapsed under its own contradictions. The Morning Star’s description of him as a “cadaverous incarnation … Continue reading
Nearly 60,000 warrants issued. Tens of thousands still outstanding. Victims waiting years. Defendants vanishing abroad. Channel 4’s Dispatches investigation into Britain’s fugitive problem arrives not as a curiosity from the margins of criminal justice but as a warning from its centre. What happens to public faith when appearing for trial begins to look less like an obligation … Continue reading