By Russell Fraser On 2nd December 2025 the Justice Secretary, David Lammy, finally made a statement in the House of Commons on ‘criminal court reform’. As with most ministerial statements much had been briefed to the press in advance, despite the Ministerial Code requiring announcements of policy be made in the House before anywhere else. Perhaps Lammy considers such things quaint, as with his newfound view of the place of juries in our criminal justice system.

Mike Phippsr eviews Homesick: How Housing Broke London and How to Fix It, by Peter Apps, published by One World and Eviction: A Social History of Rent, by Jessica Field, published by Verso. Two more books on the housing crisis! The first one is by Peter Apps, who previously wrote an award-winning exposé of the Grenfell scandal.

The right will now be introduced after six months, in a breach of Labour's election manifesto.

Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog

As Reform surges and we enter a ‘proto-fascist’ moment, it is vital that we reject both complacency and factionalism, and work out how to build a powerful leftist counter-movement — in parliament and ...

On the same day as Labour’s crushing defeat in the Caerphilly by-election, which ended  a Labour reign of 107 years in that seat, a local council by-election took place In Colchester.  Br…

Jack Sheard suggests how practitioners might respond to an arcane piece of legislation popular with landlords who are trying to intimidate tenants.

An update from Adalah, an independent human rights organization and legal centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. Over the past 24 hours, Adalah attorneys met with 331 participants of the Global…

Conference comes to life as delegates vote to sanction Israel and demand a wealth tax. In a victory for the tireless campaigning mounted by solidarity activists, Labour’s Annual Conference has vote…

On the eve of Labour’s Conference, Mike Phipps reviews The Starmer Symptom, edited by Mark Perryman, published by Pluto. What does Keir Starmer represent? Does his wing of the Labour Party stand fo…

By Dashty Jamal On Saturday September 13th, a counter-demonstration was organized in London by Stand Up To Racism against the far-right Tommy Robinson demonstration, in which we participated to reject the hatred and bigotry spread by Tommy Robinson and the far-right. The far-right demonstration, which drew nearly 110,000 participants, was one of the largest far-right gatherings against refugees in Britain in recent years.

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

In the Labour Conference 2025 Labour Left Podcast edition, Bryn Griffiths speaks to the Labour left leader John McDonnell of the Socialist Campaign Group. The in-depth interview with John explores …

Charlie Winstanley’s book Bricking It: The UK Housing Crisis and the Failure of Policy is published today, Here the author introduces some its main themes. The UKs housing crisis is perhaps the single largest failure of domestic policy in decades, and an increasing source of political malaise for any party in government. The average price of a house relative to earnings in the UK is higher than at almost any other time in the last 150 years.