Shami Chakrabarti Articles

First they tried to bore us out, then they tried to bully us out ... now they try to shame us out. It will not work, writes Progress director Richard Angell Labour's new establishment is learning from and emulating the old establishment fast. The hard-left believes...

Now they have power for themselves the Bennite left have junked the ‘new politics’ they promised and indulge patronage like never before Remember the fuss about ‘Tony’s cronies’? It began almost as soon as Tony Blair was elected leader of the Labour party in 1994, and...

Corbyn’s Labour has dragged its feet on real action to combat the party’s antisemitism problem, argues Richard Angell A year ago I wrote a piece for this publication entitled ‘Concrete action needed’. Its sister piece in the Daily Mirror set out an eight-point plan...

If Labour is to earn back trust in Copeland, it must stop pining after a working class that no longer exists and champion the interests of actual working people, writes Leo Gibbons-Plowright Copeland faces the same issues as so many places in England — poor transport...