Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Ruthless, dishonest and corrupt
Before a single bomb landed, the background to the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a reflection of the utter immorality and hypocrisy of the British ruling class, explains ROBERT GRIFFITHS
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Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
THE Iraq War confirmed that Britain’s ruling establishment is utterly ruthless, dishonest and corrupt. There are also times when it can be divided.
Ruthless, because from “shock and awe” in March 2003 until their main withdrawal from Iraq in 2009, Britain’s armed forces helped obliterate targets across the country in a merciless display of military might.
This was the most extensive deployment of British troops (46,000) since WWII, bigger even than the wars in Malaya (1948-60), Korea (1950-53), Suez (1956), the Falklands (1982), the Gulf (1990-91) and Afghanistan (2001-21).
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