1. A Farewell to Morgan McSweeney
2. Why Labour Can't Argue with the Left
3. What is the Point of Keir Starmer?
4. The Unmaking of Mandelson
5. Labour after Gorton and Denton
February 2026 is a month to savour. All the worst things happened to the worst people in Labour Party politics. And joyful moments weren't confined to seeing others taken down a peg or two. Leading, unsurprisingly, was the overdue fall of Morgan McSweeney. The man partly responsible for the topic of the number two post - Labour's inability to square off against anything to its left. With the mastermind behind Starmerism out the door, the question then arises concerning the point Starmer now has - the topic of the third placed post. In at four was the public disgrace of Peter Mandelson, and fifth is the political culmination of all their works: the loss of one of Labour's safest seats to the Greens.
What for the second chance saloon? As I was a member for all of three months, I'll give my temporary political accommodation a shout out. Your Party's leadership elections finally coughed up a result after some bilious mudslinging, so here's my take on what comes next.
And there we are for the shortest month. As Trump and Netanyahu have unleashed hell against Iran, one can't expect too many political highpoints in March. And, undoubtedly, the government will disgrace itself again bending over backwards to support the latest criminal venture. But as the reverberations of Gorton and Denton work their way through domestic politics, perhaps there will be some nice surprises.
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Seeing some interesting rumours about US naval personnel apparently signalling their displeasure at being so openly deployed for Israel.
Even without such rumours, it would be obvious that the nascent Christofascist regime in Washington will soon have to execute a major purge of its military to remove "non-conforming ideologies". It's already made some baby steps in that direction, enough for a clear signal of intent. They have to survive the midterms first, but anytime after that they might get started in earnest.
And then - if that does come to pass - there will follow a period where US military power means relatively little outside the US itself; where most of what remains of its forces will be concentrating upon subduing and enslaving the "blue states".
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