RAMZY BAROUD on how Israel’s narrative collides with military failure
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Ominous official silence over British foreign policy
Gaza remains the key political issue in the world today and needs to be openly discussed as part of the coming election campaign, writes DIANE ABBOTT
CENSORED BY THE WORLD: Presiding Judge Nawaf Salam reads the ruling of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, last Friday, which orders Israel to immediately halt its military assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah
ROGER McKENZIE explains how Ibrahim Traore has sparked the flames of hope across Africa, while the Western powers seek to extinguish all attempts to build true sovereignty in the long-exploited continent
DANIEL GOVER considers the procedural complexities awaiting a Private Member’s Bill in its passage through Commons and Lords
JAMIE TUCKNUTT reports on an initiative that brings together two epochs of the city’s anti-fascist struggles
Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
With turnout plummeting and faith in Parliament collapsing, BERT SCHOUWENBURG explains how radical local government reform — including devolved taxation and removal of party politics from town halls — could restore power to communities currently ignored by profit-obsessed MPs
THE election campaign is well under way. But from the coverage and the speeches it would be hard to know that this country is at war on three fronts, in Gaza, Ukraine and Yemen.
International events have not featured at all in the political debate.
Of course, voters have a right to know what the political leaders are offering on domestic policy — it is vital to them, and the interests of their loved ones and communities. But there is a large gap, at least currently, where a debate about this country’s foreign policy ought to be.
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