Kristian Niemietz

Labour’s Yimby plan could lock the Tories out of power for good

13 July 2024 4:30 pm

As opposition leader, Sir Keir Starmer long struggled to define what ‘Starmerism’ is, other than ‘not Corbynism’ and ‘not Toryism’.…

The trouble with Labour’s new towns plan

21 May 2024 6:55 pm

Since last October, when Keir Starmer declared that he was a ‘Yimby’ – a ‘yes in my back yard’ –…

Where is the solidarity with Guyana?

13 December 2023 12:08 am

On Monday, the Stop the War Coalition (StWC), the environmentalist group Just Stop Oil (JSO), the Socialist Campaign Group (SCG),…

A review of Britain’s airport slots is long overdue

6 December 2023 6:00 pm

When passing through an airport, the average traveller is unlikely to give much thought to the invisible economic forces that…

Have we learned anything from the fall of the Berlin Wall?

9 November 2019 6:15 pm

Thirty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, socialism is back in fashion. The anniversary is a good…