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From Holborn to NATO: Starmer’s Move Beyond the Ballot Box

Sir Keir’s Next Constituency Has No Voters Keir Starmer is stepping down as MP for Holborn and St Pancras to focus on "international affairs." Reports...
Andy Burnham, Keir Starmer

The Baton and the Bill: Starmer Quits as MP

No Victory Lap for Starmer: The Baton Passed After Two Years of Broken Promises Sir Keir Starmer says he is ready to “pass the baton”...
Jake Richards

Jake Richards: A Long Way From Rother Valley

From Rother Valley to Missouri: A Minister's £34,230 Freebie Justice Minister Jake Richards spent £34,230 of public money on a four-day US trip that bracketed...
Sir John Lubbock

How Workers Won the Right to Bank Holidays 

From Factory Floors to Free Mondays: The Radical History of Bank Holidays As you lie in bed this Bank Holiday Monday, savouring that delicious sense...
Iceland EU

The Sovereignty of the Shore: Why Iceland Refused to Sell Its...

Iceland's EU Referendum: A No Vote for Sovereignty, Not Isolation Iceland voted No to EU accession talks by 52.8% - a rejection of technocratic management...
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Middlesbrough: Children of the Hydra

 The Children of the Hydra: What Middlesbrough Tells Us About Britain Nine people died in Middlesbrough this week: two police officers in a crash, a...
Sainsbury’s creates 10,000 work experience opportunities to tackle youth employment crisis Andy Burnham

The Killer of Dreams: Britain Took Away the Ladder, Then Offered...

The Killer of Dreams Nearly a million young people are NEET: Britain’s youth employment crisis did not fall from the sky. Successive governments helped create...
Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton: Her Coat of Many Colours

Dolly Parton Was the Last Great Class Hero of American Music The Mountain Girl Who Remembered... There is a precise moment in the biography of modern...
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Burnham’s Ukraine Trip Exposes Britain’s Defence Dependency

Andy Burnham in Kyiv: A War Economy Built on Missiles Will Only Last as Long as the War Andy Burnham’s first foreign trip as Prime...
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MPs Took £400,000 in Freebies: It’s Time to Ban Hospitality

Westminster's Hospitality Suite MPs declared almost £400,000 in free tickets and hospitality between January and July this year. Wimbledon, the Chelsea Flower Show, the Brit...

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Paul Knaggs
Editor and founder of The Heartlands Tribune. Independent journalist and political commentator covering British politics, democracy, civil liberties, working-class communities and public ownership.