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  • Labour leader Kier Starmer stands clapping at Party Conference against a red background

    Simon Hedges’ credibility question

    As Labour doesn’t scare the establishment, they’ll probably get in by default at some point. That’s the beauty of Britain’s advanced democracy, writes Simon Hedges

  • A photo of the Houses of Parliament taken from across the River Thames

    Clive Lewis on the UK’s crumbling democracy

    After two years of Boris Johnson’s government, Clive Lewis and Marzena Zukowska discuss growing authoritarianism and sources of hope for the future

  • This essay was first published in the Autumn 2021 issue of Red Pepper

    England after the break-up of Britain

    Ex-Labour MP Thelma Walker explains why she’s thrown in her lot with the Northern Independence Party

  • Singapore

    One-party rule in Singapore?

    The People’s Action Party has won every election since 1959 – but it hasn’t always been a fair fight, writes Kirsten Han

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    Being Socialist and the Labour Party

    Tom Williams makes the case for organising strategically within the Labour Party

  • Protesters behind a Nigerian flag at a demonstration

    Nigeria’s endless quest for democracy

    For Nigeria’s switch to civilian rule to be truly democratic, it must ensure that sovereignty resides with its people, writes Synda Obaji

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    Why planning is political

    Andrea Sandor explores how community-led developments are putting democracy at the heart of the planning process