Special guest Tom Baldwin: Can Keir turn a bad start around?

Special guest Tom Baldwin: Can Keir turn a bad start around?

The Matts are joined by New World contributing editor Tom Baldwin - author of Keir Starmer The Biography - for an honesty session. Where has Labour gone wrong in its poor first year and is Keir Starmer the right man to turn things around and keep Farage out of Downing Street. It’s a tough conversation […]

Keir Starmer has time to turn this around

A country only changes direction when the behaviour of its people does. Margaret Thatcher believed this. She is the principal protagonist of the new Adam Curtis BBC documentary series Shifty, a collage analysis of modern Britain reviewed in the New Statesman last week.In it, Curtis shows her at the depths of the monetarism chaos, telling her party they must think in terms of several parliaments: “We have to move this country in a new direction; …

A Year of Keir, An Irish Perspective…

“With one year of office under its belt, the British Labour Party has categorically failed to deliver on its stated promise of change.” Joe Dwyer reviews Starmer’s first year in office from an Irish perspective. In the late 1960s, it was often said that what separated the then ‘Prime Minister of Northern Ireland’, Captain Terence O’Neill, from his predecessors was that; while Craigavon and Brookeborough had walked over Catholics with hob-nail bo…