‘Labour must seize the moment and ban social media for under 16s’
It is thanks to whistleblowers that we know that tobacco companies knew their products were addictive and harmful,…
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Action on social media measures for under-16s coming ‘quickly’, says Starmer
Keir Starmer has promised that the government will act “very, very quickly”, amid growing pressure for ministers to…
Politics is complicated and that’s OK
There’s a mean-spirited joke about Burnham that does the rounds in SW1 about a Blairite, Brownite and Corbynite…
‘The moral foundations of Scottish Labour’s Flip-Flop-Flip’
Less than two years ago, 916,000 people in Scotland voted Labour. In May 2026, roughly 460,000 did. About…
‘Labour must show Britain is no longer open for dirty money’
At least £325 billion of illicit finance flows through the UK every single year. Pause on that figure…
‘Patriotism and nation-building must be at the heart of Labour’s values story’
In his resignation speech, Wes Streeting invoked ‘a confident British patriotism, decent, fair-minded, internationalist, bound together in common…
A reformed House of Lords can save the Union’
In December 2022, the BBC reported that House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, despite being himself a…
Letters to the Editor – week ending 24 May 2026
Read what people have been writing to our editor about this week. Find out how to share your…
‘Young Labour elections give radical realists a path to power’
The recent Young Labour vote provides reasons to be hopeful about the upcoming elections for Labour’s national executive,…
‘Labour has work to do to regain the trust of Prospect members’
Prospect is a politically independent union, but it would be a mistake to believe we are not invested…
