BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further

WHY is the media obsessed with Russian interference in the UK, when the US influence is much bigger?
In a discussion recorded in the indispensable 2002 book Understanding Power, Noam Chomsky points out “it was a very easy thing in the 1980s for people in the United States to denounce the atrocities of the Soviet Union in its occupation of Afghanistan.”
However, he argues these “denunciations had no effects which could have helped people. In terms of their ethical value, they were about the same as denouncing Napoleon’s atrocities.”

Reviews of new releases by Jens Lekman, Big Thief, and Christian McBride Big Band

IAN SINCLAIR reviews new releases from The Beaches, CMAT and Kathleen Edwards

From training Israeli colonels during the slaughter to protecting Israel at the UN, senior British figures should fear Article 3 of the Genocide Convention that criminalises complicity in mass killing, writes IAN SINCLAIR

New releases from Cassandra Jenkins, Ryan Davis & the Roundhouse Band, and Case Oats