Owen Jones

His big speech showed promise, but the need is urgent. Keir Starmer failed to fix a broken economic model; Burnham must not make the same mistakeToday’s speech by Andy Burnham underlines that he re...

From Gaza to the Peter Mandelson row, his abandoned pledges to the ‘island of strangers’ claim, Starmer’s time at No 10 was truly dismalGood riddance, Keir Starmer. No sooner had the toppled prime ...

In the UK – and across the west - incendiary language and white supremacist policies are entering the political mainstreamWhat qualifies as too rightwing these days? It’s a question I’ve considered...

Chilling comments by Reform figures can’t be dismissed when you consider the overwhelming power of the UK’s centralised stateBritain is much closer to tyranny than you think. Consider a recent soci...

The decision to charge Raúl Castro is grimly reminiscent of the run-up to Trump’s military operation in Venezuela. Meanwhile, the Cuban people are suffering needlesslyThe US war machine has turned ...

With the Greens now a viable alternative, a Labour leader will not win power again without the progressive vote. But they will need to earn itLabour’s failures have made a rightwing authoritarian g...

Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski have reason to celebrate – but what next for Labour and the Tories now that the two-party system has been demolished?• Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in ...

The leader of the Green party has faced antisemitic attacks, and yet his thoughts on the subject don’t count as far as the rightwing UK press is concernedThe surge of the Green party has emphasised...

Spain’s PM, Pedro Sánchez, hosted the inaugural meeting of the Global Progressive Mobilisation. Keir Starmer and other social democrats were notable by their absenceCan progressives push back the r...