Labour

Jeremy Corbyn isn’t unelectable. The Labour Party is. On the basis of the last three months or so, since the referendum result, nobody in their right mind would want the Labour Party to be in charge of running the country. They have been a party riddled with disunity. MPs...

Who would have thought that a play about a 50 year old Labour club in Wakefield would be so captivating?! Mark Thomas’ play is emotional and hilarious yet ultimately it is political. His stirring performance and script transport, not only himself, but the audience to the Red Shed in Wakefield,...

We are now several weeks into the Labour Party’s am-dram production of Jez Miserables and the question is starting to emerge over whether it’s a comedy or a tragedy. We’ve just finished the opening act which saw Angela Eagle take flight, stumble over empty air and promptly crash into...

On Thursday 2nd June, Labour Students and the Left Society hosted a debate on University Park on the upcoming EU referendum. The debate tackled what the EU referendum will mean for the left wing, with each team being made up of students from the University. Tom Roberts, Jordan Thorpe,...

A quick look at various University of Nottingham (UoN) Facebook pages will tell you that 53 students are part of the University’s Liberal Youth, 271 are members or supporters of Labour, and the Tories have a whopping 449 members on their Facebook page. But everybody knows that Facebook pages...

Since his election as Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn’s unashamedly staunch socialist policies have polarised opinion within the media, public, and even the Labour party itself. Whilst he appears, and has certainly been portrayed as, a Marxist Martian reborn from the ashes of Michael Foot’s kamikaze 1983 general election campaign,...

On Thursday 11th February, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn visited the Frink Exhibition at Nottingham’s Lakeside Arts Centre before moving to deliver a speech for the University of Nottingham’s (UoN) Labour Society and general Labour supporters. After succeeding Ed Miliband and assuming party leadership in September 2015, Corbyn has sought...