The Slow Death of Cosmopolitanism
The anti-immigration rhetoric at the heart of the vote for Brexit has become symptomatic of a wider isolationist trend in British culture. We live in an ever more globalised world. As any good economics...
Category: UK Politics
Buyer’s Remorse: Calling Time on Corbyn
What good are principles without power? Ryan Curran, a 17-year-old Labour member who voted for Jeremy Corbyn, explains why the Labour leader must go. Labour’s previous leadership contest, now over nine months ago, inspired...
Forget Left & Right: Now is a Time for Change
The EU referendum highlighted the true fault lines in British society. Now it’s time for our two main political parties to reflect these. What happened on June 23 was a wholesale rejection of the...
Owen Smith: Saving Labour
With Angela Eagle’s withdrawal from the Labour leadership race, Antony Tucker explains why Owen Smith is the best choice facing the party. It’s on: with Angela Eagle’s withdrawal, Owen Smith has become the sole...
Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right
Politics is becoming increasingly polarised. Now, more than ever, we need centrist politics to heal a divided nation. In the wake of the EU referendum it has become clear that radical and unpredictable political...
Global Horizons
Britain will soon be free from the shackles of the EU. Now we need to make the most of this opportunity to regain control and trade with the world. The dust has settled on...
Labour Needs Nuance
By thinking of everyone and everything in terms of being “Blairite” or “Corbynite”, Labour risks succumbing to a black-and-white view of the party and wider politics which the country neither understands nor cares for....
Brexit: Reaping the Whirlwind
With the defeat of the Remain campaign in the recent EU referendum, the left has to learn its lessons and begin the fightback against Britain’s lurch towards the intolerant right. Britain has voted to...
Challengers Beware
Corbyn’s politics are good. His leadership not so. He has to go if Labour is to win, but a coup solves nothing – gentle coercion is the answer. Corbyn has to go: his failure...
Standing By, Not Standing Up
Brexit has shown Jeremy Corbyn to be an elitist seller of magic beans. But for Corbynistas, the sand looks to be a welcoming place for one’s head. Britain is divided, the Prime Minister has...
Stand Up and Be Counted
We need representative democracy, but when ultimate power is at stake, it is the people who must decide where it lies. Unless you’ve spent the last twelve months with your fingers in your ears,...
Why Britain will Vote to Remain
The campaign to leave the EU has been filled with toxic rhetoric that has put off left-wing voters, argues Sam Glover. What campaign can unite Donald Trump, George Galloway, Iain Duncan Smith and Vladimir...
People Power, Not Pounds and Pence
Publically funded political parties could be part of the answer to the present mistrust and corruption in politics. It’s time to ban donors. Who pays for politics? It may seem like an odd question,...
Project Fear Is Working
Scaring the electorate into voting for “Remain” may be wrong, but it is working nonetheless. Having witnessed the passion and intense level of debate during Scotland’s independence referendum in 2014, it seemed the rather...
The New Corbynomics
Jeremy Corbyn’s mandate from the Labour Party membership was founded on the “new politics,” but Labour’s State of the Economy Conference may well have signalled a relapse to the old agenda. “Wealth creation is...
Celebrities Back Remain: So What?
Politicians, economists and business figures have all voiced their opinions on the European Union debate; last week it was the turn of celebrities. But should we care what they think? The Bank of England,...
The EU Referendum: Ajockalypse Now
The SNP has threatened to hold another independence referendum if Scotland is dragged out of the EU by England. The consequences of ignoring Scotland’s voice in this debate have never been direr. Whilst a...
Don’t Bash The Beeb
With the government aiming to further control the BBC’s activities, Antony Tucker argues that we need to stand up for the organisation, or risk losing it. The BBC is undoubtedly one of Britain’s greatest...
Tipping Point
David Cameron devoted copious amounts of time to negotiating the terms of his insignificant EU deal, yet with public concern growing over the worsening refugee crisis, perhaps his focus should have been elsewhere As...
Holyrood’s Rude Awakenings
As the dust settles from Thursday’s Scottish Parliament elections, Ryan Curran looks at how Scottish politics is no longer simply a matter of left vs right, but rather one of nationalism vs unionism. Last...
