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Linda Pentz Gunter
Mustafa Barghouti (fist raised) at the International Conference Against War Pic: Steve Eason
Features / 26 June 2026
26 June 2026

At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer makes a speech in Downing Street, London, as he said he will resign as leader of the Labour Party and he has informed the King of his decision, June 22, 2026
Politics / 24 June 2026
24 June 2026

Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

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Men’s football / 14 June 2026
14 June 2026

How soaring prices, celebrity spectacle and political hypocrisy are overshadowing the beautiful game on the sport’s biggest stage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Palestinian women's football team
Palestinian rights / 7 June 2026
7 June 2026

As World Cup begins, the sport’s authority does nothing to protect or free two Palestinian women football stars arrested by Israeli authorities, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

A street scene in Cuba
Features / 27 May 2026
27 May 2026

The real ‘humanitarian threat’ isn’t Cuba but the United States, where poverty, lack of healthcare and illiteracy abound, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

President Donald Trump speaks at Rockland Community College, May 22, 2026, in Suffern, N.Y.
Features / 25 May 2026
25 May 2026

The racist Republican tactic of redistricting to keep Trump and his base in power is turning the clock back to the 1950s, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Author Michael Rosen during a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic at the National Memorial Arboretum, in Burton-on-Trent, March 9, 2025
Features / 14 May 2026
14 May 2026

Author Michael Rosen asked people how we confront a takeover by Reform. The Labour Party would do well to listen to the answers rather than shuffle more deckchairs on the Titanic, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

President Donald Trump speaks as he visits the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to see the new blue protective coating being applied as part of a renovation project, May 7, 2026, in Washington
Features / 9 May 2026
9 May 2026

It can be hard to discern conspiracy theory from reality and under the Trump regime the two might just be the same thing, writes Linda Pentz Gunter

NOT ALL IT SEEMS: A general view of main generator 1, at the Sizewell nuclear power plant in Suffolk.
Books / 26 April 2026
26 April 2026

ROGER McKENZIE suggest this book is used as a resource to help spark resistance to the rise of nuclear power

A protester outside the gate to Hinkley Point nuclear power station in Somerset where around 800 people gathered to on the eve of the first anniversary of the Fukushima disaster to demonstrate against the use of nuclear power
Nuclear Power / 25 March 2026
25 March 2026

Quintessentially British Rolls-Royce wants to put its small new reactors on Anglesey, but it turns out they’re not so small or even particularly British, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Jeremy Corbyn speaks during a Palestine Coalition march in central London, January 31, 2026
Features / 20 March 2026
20 March 2026

LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on this week’s conference unveiling the findings of the Gaza Tribunal established by Jeremy Corbyn

Money stacked on top of an energy bill
Features / 6 March 2026
6 March 2026

Oil and gas prices are rising due to the illegal war against Iran, but new nuclear power plants will only make things worse as their costs also escalate, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

CARNAGE: Rescue workers and residents search through the rubble after an Israeli-US strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, Saturday February 28
Features / 2 March 2026
2 March 2026

Hundreds protested against the US-Israel attacks on Iran in Parliament Square on Saturday, fearing a wider conflagration and horrified by the targeting of young schoolchildren, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to Panshanger Community Centre in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. Picture date: Tuesday February 10, 2026
Politics / 13 February 2026
13 February 2026

The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

One Franklin Square, home of the Washington Post newspaper in downtown Washington, February 4, 2026
Media / 5 February 2026
5 February 2026

But as the paper lurched rightward, some of the better political writing was actually found there, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Students protest US Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside the Pflugerville Justice Centre after walking out of their classes in Pflugerville, Texas, February 2, 2026
US / 3 February 2026
3 February 2026

Schoolchildren who joined a nationwide anti-Trump walkout learned more outside the classroom than in it but could still be penalised, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

A protester is pepper sprayed at close range while being detained near the site of the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026
US Politics / 26 January 2026
26 January 2026

A nurse dies as US immigration agents are ready to hunt down “everyone,” a US senator is told, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

The wall seen from Aida refugee camp, Bethlehem. Photo: Paolo Cuttitta / Creative Commons
Sport / 21 January 2026
21 January 2026

Palestinian children could be denied the simple right to play a game of football, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Al-Shifa medical graduation
Gaza Genocide / 17 January 2026
17 January 2026

Out of the ashes of Gaza rises the world’s most remarkable graduating class, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago club, January 3, 2026, in Palm Beach, Fla.
Features / 5 January 2026
5 January 2026

Trump’s Venezuela “coup” along with his fake peace deals, including the latest in the Congo, are motivated by personal gain and self-aggrandisement, writes Linda Pentz Gunter

DANGERS: The first new nuclear reactor for a British power station for over 30 years arrives by barge at Combwich Wharf on the River Parrett, Somerset, to be used at Hinckley Point C, 2023
Features / 13 December 2025
13 December 2025

The argument for a “significant expansion” of nuclear power will deliver soaring electricity prices that condemn underserved communities to unending hardship and poverty, argues LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Fifa President Gianni Infantino awards US President Donald Trump with the ‘Fifa Peace Prize’ during the draw for the 2026 World Cup at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, December 5, 2025
Football / 7 December 2025
7 December 2025

But the award has been met with near universal derision and disgust, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Protesters march past the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, during a
Features / 21 November 2025
21 November 2025

From a “basket of deplorables” to “imbecilic morons,” US officials have ramped up their ad hominem rhetoric towards their own citizens, writes Linda Pentz Gunter

F-35B Lightning on HMS Queen Elizabeth in 2020, they are not nuclear-capable hence the upgrading to F-35As which are equipped for US B61 nuclear bombs / Pic: LPhot Luke/MOD/CC
Features / 14 November 2025
14 November 2025

A new report says the government’s purchase of US nuclear-armed aircraft prioritises transatlantic politics over military needs and ignored its own Strategic Defence Review, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER