The death by drone of Jihadi John earlier in the week again brought to the fore the increasingly fraught debate over such state-sanctioned killings, which would, in a time before the War on Terror, have been termed assassinations. Jeremy Corbyn was predictably castigated by some for remarking that it would have been better for Emwazi to […]
Are drone strikes doing more harm than good in the fight against ISIS?
Nov 16th, 2015 by Luke Barratt.
Labour should embrace borrowing to break with austerity
Nov 2nd, 2015 by Luke Barratt.It’s probably better for your health if, as a Corbyn supporter, you don’t watch the Daily Politics at the moment. Those of us still addicted to the hectoring headmaster that is Andrew Neil have had to endure a cacophonous chorus of moderates who want to do moderate things like tear the Labour Party apart by […]
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Labour’s media strategy should be unspun but not unravelled
Oct 19th, 2015 by Luke Barratt.Labour has had a difficult week, politically. Though Corbynites will obviously want to support the leadership as far as possible, it is difficult to deny that John McDonnell fell right into the clumsy Osborne trap that was the Fiscal Charter. The Shadow Chancellor’s naïvety on this issue speaks to one criticism that has been levelled […]
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What might Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘social movement’ look like?
Aug 4th, 2015 by Luke Barratt.Time and again, as interviewers repeatedly thrust the issue of Jeremy Corbyn’s apparent unelectability in his face like a pet owner forcing their dog to keep looking at the mess it’s just made on the carpet, he has insisted that Labour “must become a social movement again”. To most Corbynites, this is an obvious truth. […]
