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Is Britain already at war with Russia?
Britain gave £2.3 billion to Ukraine’s war effort in 2022, along with vehicles, equipment and training of soldiers on British soil — but direct involvement in the war long predates the Russian invasion, explains KENNY COYLE
Russians protest at the involvement of British specialists in Ukrainian drone strikes, Moscow, November 3
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
THE mainstream media in Britain has asked few questions about British military involvement in the current conflict in Ukraine and fewer still about Britain’s role, along with its US mentor and Nato allies, in the calculated escalation of tension that preceded Russia’s invasion in February 2022.
In September, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace visited Kiev to meet his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksii Reznikov. The meeting’s key points were reported by the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) own website on September 30:
• Britain is one of the leading donors of military aid to Ukraine, committing £2.3 billion in 2022 — second only to the US — and then-PM Liz Truss announced that this amount would be matched or exceeded in 2023.
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