Time to really end austerity

Kevin Small’s warning that next year’s budget might only be balanced by the use of ‘exceptional financial support’ (EFS) is…

Winter Fuel Payment

The decision of the government to means-test the Winter Fuel Payment is wrong. Its consequences will be felt by people…

Good to see some MPs protesting about having to read the oath of allegiance to the monarch and his heirs…

The tens of thousands of people who have died in Gaza are not the result of ‘collateral damage’, in that…

The homelessness crisis, nationally and in Swindon, continues to worsen. More than 100,000 households are in temporary accommodation in England,…

One War crime does not justify another “It is similarly possible to argue interdicting water and electricity is legal, if…

The deliberate killing of civilians and the seizure of civilian hostages are war crimes. Hamas’s atrocity should be condemned unequivocally.…

We cannot afford NOT to do what is necessary The message from Rachel Reeves is that because of the economic…

Rachel Reeves straight-jacket for a future Labour government Writing in the Financial Times Adam Tooze asks whether “western elites have…

“Sydney Smith tells us that men seldom eulogize the wisdom and virtues of their fathers, but to excuse some folly…