Ava Santina
Ava Santina is the Politics Editor of Politics JOE. She tweets at @AvaSantina
Gorton and Denton: the view from the left
Labour have handed the Greens a victory that now threatens to unpick Keir Starmer’s leadership
Starmer’s Gorton gamble
As Labour purges its soft left, a by-election in Greater Manchester could hand the Greens their breakthrough.
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
