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Features / 21 July 2025

How the Guardian’s literary editors help to impoverish our literary and political culture

21 July 2025

At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR

Music / 14 July 2025

Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: July 14, 2025

14 July 2025

New releases from Allo Darlin’, Loyle Carner and Mike Polizze

Album reviews / 30 June 2025

Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: June 30, 2025

30 June 2025

New releases from Toby Hay, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars

ILLEGAL FROM THE START: British commandos in the south east region of Afghanistan, May 2002

Features / 20 June 2025

British death squads in Afghanistan: ‘They handcuffed a young boy and shot him’

20 June 2025

As the cover-ups collapse, IAN SINCLAIR looks at the shocking testimony from British forces who would ‘go in and shoot everyone sleeping there’ during night raids — illegal, systematic murder spawned by an illegal invasion

Music / 16 June 2025

Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: June 16, 2025

16 June 2025

Reviews of More, Remembering Now, and New Vienna

Books / 12 June 2025

Protest songs are our songs

12 June 2025

IAN SINCLAIR wades through a useful but academic study of the protest song

Albums / 2 June 2025

Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: June 2, 2025

2 June 2025

New releases from Kassi Valazza, Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke, and Friendship

Album reviews / 19 May 2025

Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: May 19, 2025

19 May 2025

New releases from Robert Forster, Self Esteem, and Arve Henriksen

Album reviews / 5 May 2025

Neil Young, Ezra Furman and Branford Marsalis Quartet

5 May 2025

New releases reviewed by IAN SINCLAIR

Features / 16 April 2025

The myth of the Western-maintained international rules-based order

16 April 2025

Despite liberal whining that Trump threatens the ‘international rules-based order,’ the historical record shows Western nations have repeatedly overthrown democracies, backed genocides and violated sovereignty, writes IAN SINCLAIR

The Palisades Fire that started in the City of Los Angeles,

Books / 1 April 2025

Brace yourselves for the deluge

1 April 2025

IAN SINCLAIR draws attention to the powerful role that literature plays in foreseeing the way humanity will deal with climate crisis

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Features / 29 March 2025

How the media sows ignorance and confusion about the war in Ukraine

29 March 2025

Detailing the deluge of delusion and dishonesty pushed by the pro-war camp, IAN SINCLAIR identifies four key tactics corporate journalists use to confuse audiences and suppress opposition to the proxy war in the east

Album reviews / 24 March 2025

Albums reviews with Ian Sinclair: March 24, 2025

24 March 2025

New releases from Black Country, New Road, Anouar Brahem, and Jaywalkers

The US-based MSG group wanted to build one of their light-po

Features / 9 January 2025

People power kills east London’s giant glowing bauble

9 January 2025

IAN SINCLAIR tells the story of a small group of east London activists who took on and defeated a billion-dollar US corporation that wanted to build a giant sphere venue coated in gaudy LED lights

FINGERS IN THE SYRIAN PIE: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer a

Features / 2 January 2025

Syria: how the British media keep the British people in ignorance

2 January 2025

The media’s shocking lack of interest in US-British involvement in Syria means it has effectively been a secret war, argues IAN SINCLAIR

Music / 12 December 2024

Album reviews by Ian Sinclair: December 13, 2024

12 December 2024

New releases from Ghais Guevara, Kim Deal and Hardwicke Circus

Bill Breeden talks to the press after the execution of Corey

Features / 9 December 2024

‘Cold-blooded, premeditated murder’

9 December 2024

Ian Sinclair talks to BILL BREEDEN, a retired Unitarian Universalist minister living in southern Indiana, and a longstanding opponent of the death penalty in the United States

ARCHITECTS OF SLAUGHTER : Jonathan Powell (right)and Alastai

Features / 23 November 2024

Media silence over Jonathan Powell’s bloody hands

23 November 2024

The British press has welcomed Keir Starmer’s new National Security Adviser without any mention of his deep, central involvement in the criminal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan — but history remembers, writes IAN SINCLAIR

ACTION: A Fossil Free London activist disrupts the 2023 Shel

Features / 9 November 2024

Protest and survive: responding to the climate crisis

9 November 2024

As a new report reveals how dire the climate situation is now, other recent research demonstrates how activism – namely Extinction Rebellion and the school strikes – has already forced governments into action, writes IAN SINCLAIR

FUELLING CONFLICT: Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte (right)

Features / 19 October 2024

Nato: a clear and present danger to world peace

19 October 2024

Ian Sinclair interviews MEDEA BENJAMIN and DAVID SWANSON about their new book on Nato, explaining how the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia established a template for military interventions, undermining international law and diplomacy

From left to right: Leslie Barson (Peace News Ltd director a

Features / 28 September 2024

Peace News: a huge, irrevocable loss for the British peace movement

28 September 2024

IAN SINCLAIR mourns the end of the longstanding activist newspaper that proudly stood ‘For Revolutionary Nonviolence’

Obituary / 3 September 2024

James Lawson: giant of the US civil rights struggle

3 September 2024

Strategist of non-violent action dies age 95

Just Stop Oil protesters take part in a walking protest bloc

Features / 24 August 2024

From climate shocks to climate action

24 August 2024

Social scientist DANA R FISHER speaks to Ian Sinclair about the efficacy of disruptive actions carried out by groups such as Just Stop Oil, the conditions that might generate a truly mass climate mobilisation, and what a win for Kamala Harris in the upcoming US presidential election would mean

AUTHORITARIAN: Crown Prince of Kuwait, Sheikh Mishal al-Ahma

Features / 19 July 2024

Promoting democracy? The reality of British foreign policy in Kuwait and the Gulf

19 July 2024

Why has our government been silent on the months-long shutdown of Kuwait’s parliament – and why do academics so often refrain from criticising countries in the region, asks IAN SINCLAIR

Mourners attend the funeral of Muhammad Sarhan,15, in the We

Features / 14 July 2024

Beyond armed peacekeeping: the power of unarmed civilian protection

14 July 2024

From Palestine to Cameroon, ELLEN FURNARI speaks to Ian Sinclair about how non-violent strategies and local relationships offer effective alternatives to military interventions in protecting civilians from conflict

SCARING THE ELITES: An anti-war march in Manchester city cen

Features / 29 June 2024

British foreign policy: the elite v the public

29 June 2024

Statistics show conclusively that the majority of Brits have repeatedly frightened the Establishment by consistently opposing military adventurism abroad, writes IAN SINCLAIR

roups including Friends of the Earth Scotland, Stop Climate

Features / 14 May 2024

The climate chasm at the heart of British politics

14 May 2024

Major cities underwater, a billion climate refugees — many scientists now expect societal collapse due to climate change. Yet from the political elite here in Britain, we have nothing even approaching acknowledgement, writes IAN SINCLAIR

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Features / 6 May 2024

‘A thick web of CIA operations and dirty tricks’

6 May 2024

Ian Sinclair speaks to SUSAN WILLIAMS about Britain and the US’s dark machinations against African leaders and nations they decided were at odds with their geopolitical interests in the 20th century — and the ongoing cover-up attempts

DISSUADED: Disengaged members of the public watch Extinction

Books / 29 April 2024

Little time left

29 April 2024

IAN SINCLAIR recommends a book that points to ‘deep societal transformation’ as the only way to arrest climate change

LINKING THE MOVEMENTS: NHS staff show their support for prot

Features / 2 April 2024

'There is no future in which we do not transform this civilisation'

2 April 2024

Speaking to RUPERT READ, Ian Sinclair discusses the urgency of climate action, the demise of the 1.5°C target, and the pivotal role of trade unions in building a majority against climate change

GAZA ON MY MIND: School and university students take part in

Features / 24 February 2024

The dangers in turning a blind eye to mass protests like those over Gaza

24 February 2024

When a government seems impossible to influence over an issue as life-or-death as war, it can lead those people left unheard to creative non-violent direct action — or to deadly brutality, warns IAN SINCLAIR

PEACE IS NOT AN OPTION: Prime minister Boris Johnson in Kyiv

Features / 14 February 2024

How the media downplays Nato’s growth as a cause of the Ukraine war

14 February 2024

A new report analyses how Western messaging during and after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine portrayed Russia’s motivations as pure, unprovoked expansionism — all in aid of prolonging the violence, explains IAN SINCLAIR

Music / 29 January 2024

Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: January 29, 2024

29 January 2024

New releases from: Pharoah Sanders, Bill Ryder-Jones and Violent Femmes

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Features / 7 December 2023

The British media’s complicity in Israel’s slaughter in Gaza

7 December 2023

Just like with the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, the British public cannot trust the media to provide accurate, critical or historically contextual coverage of the war on Gaza, asserts IAN SINCLAIR

HISTORY OF SUCCESS: Non-violent campaigns won against aparth

Features / 24 November 2023

Combatting the zombie myths about non-violent struggle

24 November 2023

The rush to understand and explain the context of the events of October 7 has revealed a growing ignorance about the effectiveness and logic of unarmed methods — IAN SINCLAIR responds

Features / 11 November 2023

Self-defence and the right to resist in Palestine

11 November 2023

Ian Sinclair speaks to legal expert MARJORIE COHN about what international law says in regard to Israel’s right to self-defence, and Israeli actions against Palestinians more generally