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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If only Biden was a ‘wild-eyed Marxist’
Trump’s labelling of the Democratic presidential candidate as ‘a Trojan horse for socialism’ is hilariously wide of the mark, says LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The drone strike was authorised by United States President Joe Biden
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
IF YOU were wondering where the Neanderthal branch of our species ended up, the answer lies in those populating the recent Republican National Convention, on stage and off.
Watching the line-up of stiff, make-up-caked, too perfectly coiffed speakers was like seeing what would happen if Mattel went bad. This was Ken and Barbie controlled by evil AI puppetmasters.
Amid all the disbelief-inducing, teleprompt-recited false rhetoric, the most risible was the drumbeat of doom that a Democratic government led by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would plunge us into Marxist mayhem.
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