Two very different demonstrations within less than a week of each other neatly illustrated just how polarised British politics is.
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At the moment there is only one real mass movement in Britain — the one which got 700,000 people onto the streets of London in October last year calling for a new referendum. Labour should be leading it rather than be perceived as equivocating about it, writes Liam McQuade.
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The far right in Britain has the wind in its sails in a way that it hasn’t since the 1930s, writes Phil Hearse.
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The British Labour Party took a radical, anti-austerity manifesto to last year’s general elections and, despite polls and media commentators expecting an unprecedented disaster, came close to winning, denying the ruling Conservatives a majority. Despite this success, attempts to attack and sabotage Labour’s socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn, and the ranks that support his vision, have continued. Michael Calderbank takes a look at what took place and what it means for the party’s future.
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The increasingly strident charges of anti-Semitism within Labour, and the widening circle of targets, have by now departed from all reality.
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