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Delayed Dignity

Britain is on the cusp of a major shift in end-of-life care, but the momentum risks stalling. A new assisted dying bill, championed by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, had sparked hope among many terminally ill patients and their families.

No Sense of Decency

Many US Democrats who complied with McCarthyism at the time would today doubtless qualify as ‘Trotskyite‘ by the exacting criteria of the vigilant crew running the British Labour Party. Indeed, the programme of Clement Attlee's 1945-51 Labour government, replete with nationalisations and public ownership schemes, sounds way too radical nowadays, and perhaps Attlee too eventually will get the heave-ho from the Party pantheon

The return of Jacinda

Ever since New Zealand implemented a Mixed Member Proportional electoral system 24 years ago, a single party has never won an outright majority of seats in the Parliament before.

Labour’s new leader

In the immediate perspective, the outcome of the pregnant election signifies the eclipse of Jeremy Corbyn, in itself the end of a chapter in the history of the Labour party.