In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
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Verdict on 100 days of Starmer’s government. The voters have already said No
A Tory-lite Labour Party is clearly unpopular with the electorate who are desperate to see actual improvement to Britain’s decimated public services, writes JOE GILL
LABOUR PAINS: Keir Starmer’s government has inflicted policies that punish the elderly and vulnerable
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Rising temperatures and human activity are making life far harder for these vital pollinators. ALEX DITTRICH explains
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners co-founder MIKE JACKSON talks to Matt Kerr about the enduring power of Pride, protest and trade unionism
Behind the language of military strategy is a confrontation that risks drawing the wider Middle East into war, says STEVE BISHOP
A BIG SET of local council by-elections last week has delivered a devastating verdict on the Labour government’s first 100 days in power.
The Tories won four seats and Labour lost four, while Lib Dems and the Greens won a seat each, as did Plaid Cymru.
Labour’s most spectacular loss was probably Leeds where the Greens won on a swing against Labour of 23 per cent. Labour just stayed ahead of Reform on 24 per cent.
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Labour’s toxic centrists have wealthy backers but there’s little to suggest they can win over MPs or party members in an open fight, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
By-election poll puts Starmer's future on a knife-edge
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP