New manifesto drop: Welfare FOR warfare From Clive (and sounds like Andy Burnham) to Sharon Graham to the Lib Dems and (to a lesser extent) the Greens, this is the new batshit Keynesianism for militarism line. This is why anti-imperialism isn’t an optional extra for the left.

A Metropolitan Police investigation has resulted in two men being convicted of an antisemitic hate crime within just 48 hours after their arrest. Click here for the full story 👇 news.met.police.uk/news/upda…

With sadness & regret, I have resigned as shadow home office minister: Brexit has changed the challenge ahead.

As these tough election results come in, we thank and pay tribute to our councillors who have served their communities brilliantly for many years. The last thing the British people need now is Labour turning inward and losing focus on them. Keir Starmer won a huge mandate less than two years ago. Now we must get on with delivering change faster for the British people.

At some point in the challenge to the ban on Palestine Action beginning on Wednesday, the co-founder of the direct action group will be asked to leave courtroom five at the Royal Courts of Justice, as will her legal team and most others present. Then the case will continue without them. When Huda Ammori returns to the room, the special advocate – a security-cleared barrister – who represented her interests in her absence will not be allowed to tell her or her legal team what evidence was presented against Palestine Action. If Ammori asks what allegations were made directly against her, the special advocate must not tell her, even though that means she will have no chance to rebut them. Such is the nature of the secret courts system, known as the closed material procedure (CMP), within which the legal challenge to the ban will be partly heard. Critics of the system, which can be triggered on an application by a secretary of state, include those who have worked within its strictures. Angus McCullough KC, a special advocate for more than 20 years, said: “CMPs are inherently and unavoidably unfair. The justification for them is that they are the ‘least unfair’ way of dealing with cases in which there is relevant material that genuinely cannot be disclosed to the party affected by it because of its sensitivity and potential to cause harm to the wider public interest, for example, national security, if disclosed.”

Tell me what the Conservatives got consistently wrong in state education?