Tories and Labour

Millions of people in the United States are losing their employment-based health insurance amidst the COVID-19 global pandemic -- hit by the double blow of losing their job and losing affordable access to health care. Thank goodness we live in Canada -- right? Wrong. We as Canadians have long prided ourselves…

Black Lives Matter and Indigenous justice movements call on us to confront the spread of policing throughout social life. The growing movements raise concerns over the self-serving relationships between criminal justice agencies and post-secondary institutions. Particularly troubling, this includes the employment of active police officers as faculty in departments like…

That Britain’s relative prosperity today is built on the profits from slavery is an uncomfortable but undeniable truth.Many of the UK’s major modern cities owe much of their wealth and development to commerce that depended on the inhumane practice for centuries, before slavery was finally abolished throughout the British Colonies in 1833. Which…

Image copyright Reuters Downing Street has defended Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick after Labour accused him of avoiding scrutiny over his approval of a £1bn property scheme.No 10 said it was "appropriate" for a junior minister to answer Labour's urgent question on the matter.Mr Jenrick approved the east London scheme 14…

When the slave trader Edward Colstons statue was sent tumbling into the harbour in Bristol on Sunday, it was easy to anticipate that the event would be folded into Britains febrile culture war surrou… Read More

In the British imagination, racism is something that happens in other places. As the Black Lives Matter protests sweeping America made their way to the UK, Emily Maitlis suggested in a Newsnight segment with George The Poet that our legacy of slavery is “not the same” as America’s, despite America’s…

Photograph: PAThe former MP Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler, who has died aged 86, made a singular mark in British political history as the only Conservative MP to cross the floor of the House of Commons and join the emergent Social Democratic party. He did so in dramatic fashion in the vote on…

It offers a means of turning failure into electoral successIN HIS “LIFE OF THESEUS” Plutarch tells the story of the ship which carried Theseus and his crew back to Athens from their adventures in Crete. Awed by their heroism, the Athenians preserved the ship for several centuries by removing the…

It offers a means of turning failure into electoral successIN HIS “LIFE OF THESEUS” Plutarch tells the story of the ship which carried Theseus and his crew back to Athens from their adventures in Crete. Awed by their heroism, the Athenians preserved the ship for several centuries by removing the…

Sir Keir Starmer has accused the government of “winging it” over how it is managing the coronavirus pandemic. The Labour Party leader told Boris Johnson he has to “restore public confidence” in how the crisis is being dealt with. Sir Keir attacked the prime minister’s record ahead of the first…