Two key lessons come out of the chaos in the House of Commons on Wednesday: that the Labour leadership is being dragged, kicking and screaming,
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Editorial: Starmer fiddles while Gaza burns
As every political commentator knows, there are limitations to what by-elections tell us about national politics. Turn-out is always smaller than in a general election
Where there was growing harmony between the interests of the ruling elite in Saudi Arabia and the capitalist class of Israel, the war in Gaza
The savage war that Israel is conducting against the population of Gaza will have profound and lasting effects throughout the Middle East, including Israel. The
There is a profound historical irony in the fact that the 1948 international Genocide Convention, which was set up in response to the Nazis’ murder
It isn’t just the weather that is grey and gloomy this first week of January. It is also the political and economic outlook for the
In the next week we will no doubt have inflicted upon us the ‘official Christmas photographs’ of Rishi Sunak and his family. It is a
The special conference of the TUC last weekend reaffirmed its previous decision to opposed the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act, which comes into force in
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Editorial: Cop28, the biggest circus in the world
The Cop26 meeting in Glasgow two years ago was described at the time by Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, as just “more blah, blah blah”.
The Autumn statement of Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, outlining future government taxation plans, will make little difference to the likelihood of a Tory defeat at
