
What happened to Keir Starmer’s pledge that Labour would return to power with a ‘government of service’? Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu speak to the backbench Labour MP to understand why the Government is focusing on how to ‘stop the boats’ rather than fixing people’s everyday lives

In this edited extract from a new pamphlet, Pressing Issues, on the state of the media by the Fabian Society, Hardeep Matharu examines the ways in which the traditional press and social media-based news shape the ideas we think with

In the very early days of the pandemic in 2020, I remember seeing news stories of people in masks queuing in socially distanced squares marked on the floor of a market in Italy. It was strange and interesting, I thought. And then I moved on.