Owen Jones

“It’s nice, isn’t it. The quiet.” These fateful words, tweeted by a Keir Starmer-supporting author just six days after Labour’s electoral triumph, did not, it must be said, age well. But they accurately reflected the hubris which defined the core cheerleaders of Starmerism - disproportionately white salaried professionals of a certain age based in southern England - and of the Labour leadership itself ...

LABOUR’S conference did not feel like that of a political party that had just – less than three months ago – won a crushing landslide.

LET’S speak frankly: the polling for the new Labour Government after just two months in office is catastrophic...

THE double standards of the British media are not, to say the least, subtle ...

WHAT was he thinking? Scotland’s External Affairs Secretary Angus Robertson meeting with a senior Israeli diplomat has, understandably, provoked fury within the SNP ....

FINALLY, it looked as though the pressure was paying off. In opposition, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party had, of course, legitimised Israel’s genocidal rampage, including the now Prime Minister notoriously backing Israel’s right to cut off water and energy to civilians ...

POVERTY is an act of violence against children. Across the United Kingdom, around 4.3 million kids are estimated to languish below the poverty line – including around a quarter of Scottish children.

REJOICE: the Tories have been obliterated ...

THIS General Election campaign is an insult. If we had a functioning democracy, here is what would happen ...

THIS is not a General Election campaign: this is Rishi Sunak’s anxiety dream, and we are trapped in it...