As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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SOLOMON HUGHES probes Tory MP Lee Anderson’s political incubation ground in the Labour Party
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If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
LEE ANDERSON is a comically right-wing MP, blurting out ludicrous reactionary brain-farts whenever he can. In Lee World, nurses use foodbanks because they can’t manage “their own finances.”
Anyone else uses foodbanks because “you’ve got generation after generation who cannot cook properly” and “cannot budget.” Because decent meals only cost “30p a day.”
Other greatest hits from “30p Lee” include accusing the National Trust of being “coloured by cultural Marxist dogma” — colouring reds-under-the-beds hysteria with an anti-semitic tinge — calling Black Lives Matter a “political movement whose core principles aim to undermine our very way of life” and claiming footballers who took to one knee in protest against racism were “alienating traditional supporters.”
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