Gaza’s collective sumud has proven more powerful than one of the world’s best-equipped militaries, but the change in international attitudes isn’t happening fast enough to save a starving population from Western-backed genocide, argues RAMZY BAROUD
Tories suck up to far right
As the Conservatives lose electoral ground some of them hope the extremists will shore them up, warns WEYMAN BENNETT
VOX POPULI: Extinction Rebellion and Stand Up to Racism activists take part in a Stop Braverman, Stop the Hate protest outside the Home Office in central London last Saturday
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
JOHN PERRY, BECCA RENK and ROGER D HARRIS offer a corrective to the idea that Latin America still lags far behind the West on women’s rights by looking at the region’s significant feminist gains now stretching back decades
Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
MANY would have believed that the sacking of Suella Braverman might herald the end of the Sunak government’s systematic attempts to scapegoat refugees and stir up the far right, but it’s clear that this is not the case.
Braverman was a long way out there. She’s been pushing at the margins of politics, associating herself with the far-right great replacement theory and ramping up rhetoric that she knew could lead to far-right mobilisation and violence.
The government’s failure to push its Rwanda plan through the Supreme Court led, not to reflection, but instead Sunak promising emergency legislation and a new treaty with Rwanda.
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