Maya Goodfellow on the the historical roots of the hostile environment policy, the punitive, cruel and deliberately confusing character of Britain's immigration system, and how New Labour's policies on migration and asylum laid some of the basis for the Conservative's migration policies, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.

A post-capitalist manifesto for conservation.

One lesson drawn in General Election post-mortems by many on the left is the need for greater democracy in the Labour Party. But, as John-Baptiste Oduor argues, in the absence of working class mobilisation democratisation has served to further distance the Party from its working class base.