Green Party leader Zack Polanski is standing in the hated former Prime Minister’s seat of Holborn & St Pancras. This could be a big turning point, but can he win? The Greens’ shift to the left under Polanski has seen them rise, but this has been offset in recent months.

The British state is readily greasing the wheels of big tech. Lenin once remarked that the state is “bound by a thousand threads to the bourgeoisie”. Nowhere is this clearer than the inseparable ties and revolving door between the British state and US tech giants.

Once again, the crisis of the prison system is back in the headlines, following Burnham’s early prisoner release fiasco. With intense overcrowding, staff morale in crisis, and a probation service at breaking point, this situation is intractable under capitalism.