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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The spat with China shows the US no longer always gets its way
Trump’s readiness to use trade threats is not some new departure for US imperialism, as the decades-long blockade of Cuba shows, but in the past these threats were always directed at vastly weaker countries, with little or no leverage to hit back, writes KENNY COYLE
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, arrive
at a news conference at the State Department in Washington on Wednesday
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
TRYING to make sense of US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy often seems more an area of expertise for child psychologists than political analysts.
If Trump seems permanently befuddled, this lack of direction is also a reflection of the serious policy divisions within not only the Republican Party but the broader US elite.
There are radically diverging differences emerging about how to handle a world that the US can no longer shape and channel as effectively as it once did.
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