SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
The BBC: don’t follow the money
The BBC might prefer us to think of its pundits as ‘neutral’ on topics of the day, but then why is it glossing over their vested sources of income, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
Don’t dismiss Lebanon as a side theatre of this war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN — there are signs Israel has expansion in mind, and it has demonstrated its willingness to expel and kill whole populations
The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on this week’s conference unveiling the findings of the Gaza Tribunal established by Jeremy Corbyn
CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
“FOLLOW the money” is supposed to be a top journalism tip: it was key to journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein exposing the Watergate conspiracy, bringing down US president Richard Nixon.
“Following the money” is a central technique to what almost every journalist sees as among the best examples of their trade.
So it’s both worrying and a bit sad that the BBC actively doesn’t want you to follow the money. It often doesn’t want you to know the money even exists, let alone tell you who is paying it to who.
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