With policies to purportedly save the high street and a promise to lift the two-child benefit cap, Nigel Farage is looking for new ways to capitalise on mass disaffection, writes Aaron Bastani.
Outside of London, not a single city in south-east England has a metro mayor. It’s time we gave these places the political clout they deserve, argues Aaron Bastani.
15 years ago, there were 13,000 journalists working in local media, today there are just 4,000. We urgently need more for effective government outside the M25, writes Aaron Bastani.
There’s little worse than wasting your time on a bad book, and little more rewarding than getting it right. Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar share their top reads of the year.
The Israeli prime minister needed a way to distract the world from genocide and keep himself in power - and in Iran, he found it, writes Aaron Bastani.
Labour’s defeat in the Gorton and Denton byelection was so foreseeable and so eagerly self-inflicted that it should sound the prime minister’s political death knell, writes Aaron Bastani.
Progressives voted tactically in the Makerfield byelection. The right did not. That, repeated in a general election, could stop Nigel Farage getting the keys to Downing Street, writes Aaron Bastani.
