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

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

It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end?
06.10.2025 5

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The Guardian view on child poverty: the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap can’t come soon enough

The Guardian view on child poverty: the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap can’t come soon enough
30.09.2025 2

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The Guardian view on Starmer’s conference speech: national renewal needs more than rules-bound growth

The Guardian view on Starmer’s conference speech: national renewal needs more than rules-bound growth
30.09.2025 4

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My conference pass was revoked for asking difficult questions: this is Keir Starmer’s Labour

My conference pass was revoked for asking difficult questions: this is Keir Starmer’s Labour
30.09.2025 2

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

Corbyn and Sultana: the needs of the left are greater than any of your differences
22.09.2025 20

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

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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 40

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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 100

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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 5

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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

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

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The Guardian view on maternity care failings: Wes Streeting’s new inquiry must learn from past mistakes, not repeat them

23.06.2025 6

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The Guardian view on Palestine Action: if red paint is terrorism, what isn’t?

23.06.2025 6

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

23.06.2025 5

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

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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 300

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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 5

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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 50

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

19.05.2025 20

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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 20

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

22.04.2025 8

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

15.04.2025 4

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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 5

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

09.04.2025 40

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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 30

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

26.03.2025 100

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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 60

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Imagine if all those who are silent about the terrible evil being committed in Gaza spoke up

19.03.2025 300

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Threaten campuses, shut down debate: that’s what free speech looks like under Trump

11.03.2025 100

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Keir Starmer, you claim huge and damaging cuts are vital so we can buy arms and defend ourselves. Prove it

05.03.2025 100

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The AfD are circling like vultures. But in Berlin, I found a new, young left rising against them

03.03.2025 20

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Let’s be clear – the US never had moral supremacy. With Trump, it’s not even pretending any more

20.02.2025 100

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Why does Labour think bashing migrants is the way to defeat Reform? Look abroad: the tactic never works

12.02.2025 6

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What the Labour left should learn from new revelations about Starmer’s path to power

05.02.2025 30

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The Green party’s time is now, but it needs to stop being polite – and start picking some fights

28.01.2025 40

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Israel’s leaders committed genocide in Gaza and must pay for it. Their political and media allies must too

23.01.2025 9

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Young people are abandoning democracy for dictators. I can understand their despair

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To see how Trump will control the US media, look at Viktor Orbán’s Hungary

Will democracy survive a second Trump presidency? A change of senior personnel at a social media company involving a former British deputy prime...

07.01.2025 30

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Across the west, the centre right is collapsing – and with it, any notion of what is ‘too extreme’

It was once known as the “centre right”, and this was the year it definitively perished. It never had a coherent political philosophy, but it...

27.12.2024 20

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Starmer should not be the fall guy for Labour’s failures. This disaster was written by committee

Keir Starmer’s team can smell the presence of the political grim reaper. Every Friday, the prime minister’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, runs...

20.12.2024 4

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The ICC arrest warrants must bring an end to Israel’s atrocities – and true accountability for all the guilty

It is not just Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant who should fear accountability for one of the gravest crimes of our age. If the international...

21.11.2024 3

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With Trump heading for the White House, the Democrats must learn these lessons – and fast

Did the Democrats really lose because they were too “woke”, too obsessed with minorities, too radical? After defeat, there always comes the battle...

20.11.2024 6

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Is there any red line that Israel will be held to? Biden has just confirmed the answer is no

This is a story about an apparently invincible fortress: the west’s official narrative about Israel’s war on Gaza. No matter how depraved the...

13.11.2024 100

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I’ve been on the road speaking to the US right. Trump’s victory was not a surprise

Wherever I went during the last days of the US election campaign, Donald Trump supporters told me the same thing. From Wisconsin to Pennsylvania,...

06.11.2024 4

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For rioters like Peter Lynch, jail was never the answer

If the British hard right are known for anything, other than trying to kick out migrants and ranting about “woke”, it’s promoting a justice system...

29.10.2024 10

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