PROTECT PEOPLE’S LIVES, NOT THE MING VASE
by Kenan Malik
This essay, on Labour Party election policy, was published in the Observer on 23 June 2024 under the headline “Improving people’s lives should be Labour’s first priority. Not that Ming vase”. This should be an election at the heart of which are the issues of poverty, inequality, precarity and low pay. It is, after all, a campaign in which the cost of living, the state of public services, the price of austerity and the failure of politicians and institutions to […]
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