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
Category: Editorial
By Michael Roberts Taiwan has a general election on Saturday. The international media has highlighted the election as an important geopolitical pivot – namely, if
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
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
The Tory government has made yet another re-shuffle of ministers but their unpopularity will continue until they are finally kicked out of office. The Conservative
Editorial: When is a war crime not a war crime?
Keir Starmer tried in a speech this week to ‘clarify’ his view about Israel waging its war on the people of Gaza. He tried by
Editorial: Starmer playing disgraceful role over Gaza
There has probably never been a time in the entire history of the Labour Party, when political debate and discussion has been so bureaucratically and