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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A wounded Boris Johnson is even more of a danger
Any hint of ‘one-nation Toryism’ with investment and reform to woo red wall voters is gone – cornered, our PM will lash out with ever more reactionary, right-wing schemes, sowing discord as he goes down, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Protesters calling for the removal of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in London.
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
IT’S impossible to know how the crisis in the Tory Party will play itself out.
Anyone who tells you they do know is kidding someone — either themselves or you.
But we do know that Boris Johnson has been seriously wounded by the vote of no confidence. A Johnson backlash presents serious dangers to workers, to women and to all ethnic minorities.
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