SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
Culture and climate change in literary Lakeland
The great landscapes of the Lake District have been shaped by the words of poets, but they’ve also been shaped by human actions – not always for the good, says NICK MATTHEWS
DRAMATIC: An autumnal Lake Buttermere
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
Don’t dismiss Lebanon as a side theatre of this war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN — there are signs Israel has expansion in mind, and it has demonstrated its willingness to expel and kill whole populations
The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on this week’s conference unveiling the findings of the Gaza Tribunal established by Jeremy Corbyn
CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
I HAVE been holidaying in the Lake District for about 20 years, and I find it endlessly fascinating.
Simon Schama, in his book Landscape and Memory, says that “landscapes are culture before they are nature — constructs of the imagination projected onto wood, water and rock.”
If the perception of any place is shaped by culture it is the Lakes.
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