The Tories’ women problem is back. Polling suggests that Labour are on track to win over 17% of the women who voted Tory in 2019, but barely 3% of men. But it seems unlikely that this shift is a consequence …
Did the New York Times spy on its workers?
Binyamin Appelbaum, the lead writer on economics and business for the New York Times editorial board, is by all accounts a union man. In his recent essay on “The Power in Numbers”, he concluded with a rousing demand: the Government …
The impotence of the French Left
The Communist candidate in the French presidential elections is a calm, likeable man called Fabien Roussel. Last week, he made an unremarkable statement: “A good wine, a good piece of meat, a good cheese; that’s what French Gastronomy is all …
Left in Lockdown. The (Irish) Left’s Problem with the Anti-Lockdown Movement
In a recent Answer a Broadsheet Reader session with outspoken lockdown critic Dr. Marcus De Brun, the question was put to him: why have the left remained so silent on all this stuff? Though already having been the subject of …