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As I Please: Spirit of 2025

By: Chris McLaughlin

Keir Starmer’s media cheerleaders said he would replicate the quiet radicalism of Clement Attlee once in power. But one year into an inactive, often inaudible Labour administration, comparisons with the 1945 government seem absurd.

Perfect zeros. The Starmer shadow cabinet in Manchester during the 2024 general election campaign.

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Eighty years ago, the British Labour Party shocked the world. To the horror of the privileged classes, the socialists seized power in a landslide election victory. Britain had chosen to dump its wartime leader Winston Churchill for a government that promised to change society for the benefit of the many, not the few. It was to […]

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Eighty years ago, the British Labour Party shocked the world. To the horror of the privileged classes, the socialists seized power in a landslide election victory. Britain had chosen to dump its wartime leader Winston Churchill for a government that promised to change society for the benefit of the many, not the few. It was to […]

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Eighty years ago, the British Labour Party shocked the world. To the horror of the privileged classes, the socialists seized power in a landslide election victory. Britain had chosen to dump its wartime leader Winston Churchill for a government that promised to change society for the benefit of the many, not the few. It was to […]

Eighty years ago, the British Labour Party shocked the world. To the horror of the privileged classes, the socialists seized power in a landslide election victory. Britain had chosen to dump its wartime leader Winston Churchill for a government that promised to change society for the benefit of the many, not the few. It was to […]

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