AI – use it or get used by it

Nat Pearce says AI won’t take your job, but someone using it will The debate around AI and work is often framed in apocalyptic terms:...

Problems with Anglicanism

Duncan Bowie on a vitriolic attack The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism by Martin Percy published by Hurst This is an important book, though a very frustrating...

Musk, Reform & dark money

Trevor Fisher on the threat of big money buying up British politics With Reform UK challenging the two main parties in the opinion polls, the...

Problems with Anglicanism

Duncan Bowie on a vitriolic attack The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism by Martin Percy published by Hurst This is an important book, though a very frustrating...

Musk, Reform & dark money

Trevor Fisher on the threat of big money buying up British politics With Reform UK challenging the two main parties in the opinion polls, the...

Editorial

Editorial 334

Resisting a Trump world Trump’s tariff war, ultra-protectionism and assault on democracy is turning the world upside down. Coupled with a reactionary international politics the world is shifting...

“Labour’s Post-Brexit EU Reset – Not Many Hurt.”

John Palmer on the pressures for growing alignment with the EU in the face of the Trump/Putin duopoly The European Union confronts a series of...

Tackling the Reform UK threat

Mark Seddon says Trump’s tariffs won’t be enough to stop the Overton window moving ever rightward – Labour needs to help break it The late...

Local Government on the rack

Tom Miller says the homelessness crisis is dismantling local government Readers will be familiar with the financial crisis engulfing local government, a long-running and unresolved...

Towards a resilient economy

In the wake of Trump’s tariffs, Prem Sikka argues that Labour must borrow to invest, ditch self-imposed fiscal rules, and completely overhaul tax and...

Uxbridge not a bellwether

In the wake of the Uxbridge by-election Bryn Jones says Labour’s wobbling on green policies will not win it any votes

Driscoll affair echoes Livingstone

Will Jamie Driscoll’s departure be a repeat of the Livingstone London mayor fiasco? asks Trevor Fisher

Labour’s National Policy Forum must back proportional representation

The vast majority of CLPs support it, as do two-thirds of affiliated trade unions. So, will the NPF accept the case for PR? Maximilian Czekalski explains why it should

No time to stay silent

Margaret Owen asks why Starmer is ignoring the obvious ways to win the women’s vote

Ditching Net Zero

Badenoch ignored Tory opinion research when she abandoned net zero. Why? asks Dave Toke? As we all know, Kemi Badenoch has broken with the policy...

A railway fit for Britain’s future?

Paul Salveson is cautiously optimistic on government plans The Government has been consulting on “a railway fit for Britain’s future” (see last Chartist), and the...

Our International History – 14

Frances Wright: American Owenite Utopian Frances Wright, often referred to as Fanny Wright, was born in Dundee. Brought up in a radical family, she visited...

Water needs public participatory control

Clive Lewis MP on why MPs should back his Bill to transform the water industry and end the scandal of price rip-offs, sewage pollution...