Slow News Day — Could Labour and the Greens Form a Pact?

Makerfield By-Election: The Politics of Feeling and The Lure of Hope

What kind of real hope can we find in an age of right-wing populism, nostalgic fantasies, and easy answers?Ten days before the critical by-election in Makerfield – a contested race led by prospective Labour leader Andy Burnham and Reform UK’s Robert Kenyon – we’re sitting down to talk it out in the round at The Cockpit and answer your questions.Why are so many voters turning away from traditional politics? What emotional needs are populist movem…

Slow News Day — Could Labour and the Greens Form a Pact?

The Green Party in particular finds itself in a tough position looking ahead at the next election. It is obviously over the moon to have shot up in the polls and to be a real fighting force in national politics. At the same time, there remain plenty of seats across the country where a fractured vote on the left might serve to hand seats to the Reform Party. It’s something which has come up a bunch around the current by-election in Makerfield, bu…