As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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Palestine protests must have a realisable goal
Bringing to bear our collective power over our governments in the West to enforce peace is best aided by a demand for a viable Palestinian state here and now, argues NICK WRIGHT
Pro-Palestine protesters in Washington
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
DAVID CAMERON has emerged from his £25,000 faux Romany caravan to conduct the foreign policy of the second most powerful imperialist state in the world.
After the crudities of the Suella Braverman interlude, we are told that Rishi Sunak’s latest appointment gifts him a wise consigliere offering a socially liberal gloss to his Tory government.
Even those metropolitan sophisticates invested in the most permissive of moral regimes might find simulated intimacy with a dead pig at the outer limits of their tolerance and perhaps not the best qualification for one embarking on a Middle Eastern diplomatic mission.
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