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Britons don’t want any part of Trump’s war fixation – the sooner Labour realises that the better

Britons don’t want any part of Trump’s war fixation – the sooner Labour realises that the better

Here is the sort of analysis you’re being served up by our esteemed commentariat. Keir Starmer’s positioning on the Iran war, we are told, reveals...

10.03.2026 10

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Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you

The west is in the midst of the most serious assault on free speech and academic freedom since the heyday of McCarthyism seven decades ago. For years,...

02.03.2026 20

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I saw how the Greens channelled voters’ anger – and fused it with hope. That’s why they won in Gorton and Denton

It wasn’t even close. The scale of victory of the Green party’s Hannah Spencer in Gorton and Denton changes everything. For years, British...

27.02.2026 10

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What’s the state of this Starmer-led nation? Speak to angry voters in Gorton and Denton and it all becomes clear

You can feel Labour’s electoral coalition fraying in the cold, rain-soaked streets of south-east Manchester. With nine days to go now until the...

17.02.2026 650

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The Palestine Action ruling vindicates the courageous – and shames the complicit

This is a day of humiliation for those who facilitated Israel’s genocide in Gaza – and a moment of vindication for those who stood against “the...

13.02.2026 2000

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The left warned that Starmerism would end like this. Now all of Britain faces the fallout

09.02.2026 30

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Starmer has little to offer voters of either right or left in Gorton and Denton. That’s why he’s facing a perfect storm

03.02.2026 40

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The Burnham fiasco shows that the right of the Labour party would rather see it burn than lose control

27.01.2026 30

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Ben Jennings on the special relationship between Donald Trump and Keir Starmer – cartoon

19.01.2026 10

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The Guardian view on Poems on the Underground at 40: public art to be proud of

19.01.2026 10

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Donald Trump needs helpers for his appalling neocolonialist project. What else is this ‘board of peace’?

19.01.2026 10

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Iran’s protesters need our support – not another western-intervention disaster

13.01.2026 60

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Trump’s new world order is being born – and Venezuela is just the start

06.01.2026 150

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Europe is a continent soaked in economic pessimism. Until we change that, the far right will rise and rise

16.12.2025 9

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Pity Keir Starmer – he’s the fall guy for a Labour right that’s ready to cast him aside

09.12.2025 6

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Your Party’s antics assume a luxury the left does not have: time

01.12.2025 10

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When Israel breaks international law, what does Trump’s US do? Sanction the judges

26.11.2025 10

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A question to the few remaining Labour supporters: is this refugee-bashing what you voted for?

18.11.2025 10

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Labour is standing on a precipice: if it breaks its election promise on tax, it will never be trusted again

12.11.2025 9

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It’s Halloween! Why not go trick-or-treating as something genuinely terrifying?

29.10.2025 9

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From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles

29.10.2025 10

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The politics of despair have engulfed Britain. But Zack Polanski is offering a way out

22.10.2025 10

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Be sure of this: many of the horrors the west allowed in Gaza will come closer to home

14.10.2025 150

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It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end?

06.10.2025 10

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My conference pass was revoked for asking difficult questions: this is Keir Starmer’s Labour

30.09.2025 10

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Corbyn and Sultana: the needs of the left are greater than any of your differences

22.09.2025 10

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If Labour admitted there is a genocide in Gaza, it would have to admit its own hand in it

17.09.2025 10

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This is a disaster unfolding in plain sight. Each day Keir Starmer is smoothing Nigel Farage’s path to No 10

04.09.2025 10

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From the streets of Baghdad, I saw a clear line to the bloodshed in Gaza

26.08.2025 10

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Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It couldn’t have done it without the west’s help

30.07.2025 150

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British ministers are betting they won’t face justice for complicity over Gaza. It’s a big risk to take

23.07.2025 10

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The BBC has alienated everyone with its Gaza coverage. After this latest failure, who will be left to defend it?

15.07.2025 10

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This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why

09.07.2025 8

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Welcome to Britain 2025: where a musician’s words cause more outrage than the murder and horror in Gaza

01.07.2025 10

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Socialist Zohran Mamdani could be New York’s next mayor. This is what the western left could learn from him

The Zohran Mamdani phenomenon should not be happening, if received wisdom is a reliable predictor of events. He’s the 33-year-old Muslim leftist and...

24.06.2025 10

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The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran

18.06.2025 10

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Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments

10.06.2025 7

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Don’t think Nigel Farage will kill off the Tories? Just look at Reform UK’s surge in Scotland

06.06.2025 10

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Robert Jenrick has been on a bizarre political journey. It’s made him incredibly dangerous

03.06.2025 10

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A moment of judgment has come at last: not just for Netanyahu but for his enablers

20.05.2025 10

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Starmer and his allies spent so long attacking Labour’s left, they forgot how to govern

19.05.2025 10

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Trump’s border intimidation is coming for US citizens too – ask streamer Hasan Piker

13.05.2025 10

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If the Greens really are to become the Reform-style populists of the left, Zack Polanski could be their man

07.05.2025 10

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Look to his stand on Gaza: Pope Francis gave us moral leadership in amoral times

22.04.2025 9

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Pete Songi on Keir Starmer’s attempt to save British Steel at any cost – cartoon

15.04.2025 10

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While Starmer’s hand was forced on British Steel, it’s time to forge ahead with more nationalisations

15.04.2025 9

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Israel deporting two Labour MPs? The British government is finally outraged

09.04.2025 10

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The left needs to halt the UK’s slide into Farageism. This is the kind of leader who could do it

03.04.2025 10

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Good morning Britain – prepare to be told yet again that decline is all you deserve

26.03.2025 9

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The US is detaining people trying to enter the country. Trump has really let ICE off the leash

19.03.2025 10

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