Author: Miles Donavan

“Our story is more powerful than the hatred we saw here last week. Our story places the blame with the billionaires, and we need to tell it loud and clear.” On September 20, a large crowd gathered in central London for the Make Them Pay rally. This major demonstration demanded the government taxes the super-rich, protects workers, not billionaires, and makes polluters pay for their environmental damage. Organised ahead of the Autumn Budget, the rally aimed to increase public pressure on the government to introduce taxes on extreme wealth and polluting corporations, to fund urgent climate action and ensure a just transition to…

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations. Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. The latest economic forecast for the UK by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) makes uncomfortable reading. The UK is expected to have inflation rate of 3.5% across 2025, the highest amongst G7 countries. Economic growth, a key plank of the government’s policy, is expected to ease…

‘To demonise, particularly the Muslims, this is the sort of thing why we worry about Reform.’ Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was brutally mocked on BBC Question Time over his hopes of becoming Prime Minister by musician and activist Billy Bragg. Farage has continued to make the headlines this week, seeking to whip up a moral panic over migrants and Muslims, without providing proof for any of his ludicrous claims. Appearing on LBC earlier this week, he refused to condemn President Trump’s claims linking the use of paracetamol to autism. There is no evidence of a link between pregnant mothers…

The Prime Minister has called Trump’s comments ‘nonsense’. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has defended the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan against Trump’s attacks, calling his claim that Khan wanted to bring in Sharia law ‘nonsense’. Trump took aim at Khan during a speech at the UN, where he falsely claimed that London wanted to “go to sharia law” under its “terrible mayor”. In a rambling speech at the UN, the President launched a scathing attack on the global body, where he called for countries to close their borders and expel foreigners as well as calling climate change a ‘con job’.…

‘Our job now is to talk to the country, not to ourselves, about how we’re going to change the things that they care about.’ A Labour cabinet minister has dismissed Andy Burnham’s leadership bid with a brutal takedown, after the Manchester Mayor announced ahead of party conference that MPs had approached him to challenge Keir Starmer. In an interview with the Telegraph, Burnham criticised Number 10 directly and claimed it had created a “climate of fear” among MPs, and accused the administration of creating “alienation and demoralisation” within the party. Asked if MPs had urged him to run, he said:…

The source of this confusion is unclear, but it appears to be a mix of a few factors. Given recent events, there is much confusion over the Labour Party’s rules about a leadership challenge. The source of this confusion is unclear, but it appears to be a mix of a few factors. First, some commentators have not paid sufficient attention to important changes to the Labour Party rulebook over the past decade. Although internal party procedures are not in themselves headline-grabbing, the failure to scrutinise them both when they are proposed and then when they are in effect is a…

The recommendations from the child poverty taskforce are expected before the autumn budget on November 26, although it has been repeatedly delayed. The Prime Minister’s Child Poverty Taskforce, set up after the election to tackle child poverty in the country, has concluded that lifting the two-child benefit cap is the “best way” to alleviate the problem. The Times reports that the recommendations from the child poverty taskforce are expected before the autumn budget on November 26, although it has been repeatedly delayed. The two-child benefit cap was introduced by George Osborne as Conservative chancellor. It bars families from claiming the…

Speaking to Sky News, Khan said he appeared to be living rent free in Trump’s head. The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has hit out at Donald Trump after the U.S. President once more targeted him with false claims, in what is his strongest rebuke yet of the Republican. Trump took aim at Khan during a speech at the UN, where he falsely claimed that London wanted to “go to sharia law” under its “terrible mayor”. In a rambling speech at the UN, the President launched a scathing attack on the global body, where he called for countries to close…

The Lib Dems positioned themselves as the antidote to Reform’s toxic populism and Labour’s overcautiousness Having been to Reform conference earlier this month, where members booed and sneered at so much as a mention of a Labour minister’s name, the Lib Dem conference was a breath of fresh air. Sure, they did their fair share of bashing the Tories’ awful record on the economy and immigration, and criticised Labour for not being radical enough. At their famous annual Glee Club event, they sang songs comparing Reform to ‘the fash’ and true to tradition, they belted out their sweary song about…

As always, Farage failed to provide any evidence for his ludicrous claim. Nigel Farage has come up with another bizarre claim in his bid to whip up a moral panic about migrants, this time claiming, without presenting evidence, that migrants are eating swans from Royal Parks. He made the ridiculous claim that Eastern European migrants are stealing and eating swans and carp from Royal Parks during an appearance on LBC radio, where he was also asked by presenter Nick Ferrari over whether he condemned Donald Trump’s recent comments linking paracetamol to autism. The Reform UK leader refused to condemn Trump’s…