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Less than one year after its resounding electoral victory over the Labour Party, Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is in turmoil – and crashing the country towards a social, health and economic disaster of unprecedented proportions. Combining incompetence with neoliberal (...)
Followers believe that Donald Trump is waging secret war against ritual child abusers
A conspiracy theory that Donald Trump is waging a secret war against an elite who engage in ritual child abuse is growing across UK social media, Guardian analysis has found.
The QAnon conspiracy theory is (...)
In the early weeks of Covid-19, mutual aid groups sprang up across Britain to support those abandoned by years of austerity. Now they are grappling with their roles in the months and years to come.
In the face of government abandonment, mutual aid groups across the country have risen to the (...)
Fortunes are being made by political favourites, while London’s money laundering fuels corruption across the planet
Fear, shame, embarrassment: these brakes no longer apply. The government has discovered that it can bluster through any scandal. No minister need resign. No one need apologise. No (...)
Insolvency Service data shows more than 50 people banned in cases costing HMRC millions
Directors of clothing manufacturers in Leicester have been struck off for a combined total of more than 400 years in cases costing HMRC millions, data shared with the Guardian reveals.
Details of (...)
Thinktanks such as Policy Exchange are working to shift power away from state institutions – into the prime minister’s office.
To accumulate power, a government with authoritarian tendencies must first destroy power. It must reduce rival centres of power – the judiciary, the civil service, (...)
In its first year of existence, XR transformed the global conversation around the climate crisis. But then it was gripped by internal conflicts about its next steps. Can the movement reinvent itself for the post-pandemic world? By Matthew Taylor
In November 2017, Roger Hallam looked up from (...)
Are rightwing academics being silenced? The Policy Exchange thinktank says they are – and it has plans for cracking down.
Another day, another skirmish in Britain’s culture war. Once again, universities have found themselves on the frontline. According to a report from the thinktank Policy (...)
Speech is only free when everyone has a voice – that’s why young people are angry
Outside Broadcasting House in London, the BBC has erected a statue to one of its former employees, George Orwell. The author leans forward, hand on hip, as if to make a telling point. Carved into the wall beside (...)
Rishi Sunak has turned on the taps. Entering parliament yesterday, he was in an unenviable position: he had had less than a month to prepare his budget, and had succeeded to the Exchequer only by accepting the kind of wing-clipping his predecessor refused. Suspicions lurked over the extent of (...)
It seems inevitable that Keir Starmer will be the next Labour leader and Angela Rayner will be his deputy writes Andy Stowe.
At any other time, a Labour MP who’d been a successful lawyer whose work involved doing unsavoury things, was broadly centre left, had done a decent job around Brexit and (...)
Palestine solidarity activists in the UK face increasing harassment., Husna Rizvi speaks to *Omar Barghouti*, co-founder of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement.
As alarming, anti-democratic measures are aimed at Palestine solidarity activists in the UK and beyond, Husna Rizvi speaks to (...)
On the move
UCU (University and College Union) is on the move. Less than six years ago, our union’s national leadership was ordering 2-hour strikes. A handful of lecturers plus assorted librarians, technicians, and others stood shivering on the perimeters of campuses in what appeared little (...)
There have been many articles attempting to explain the crushing defeat of the Labour Party in the UK election of 12 December 2019. Some of them are very insightful, and list reasons that undoubtedly played a part in that defeat. However, I have not come across any which highlight two factors (...)
Phil Hearse argues that the Blairite Right and Lexit Left are drawing all the wrong conclusions from the general election.
Much of this debate revolves around a simplistic caricature – that the ultra-left London-centric forces of Corbynism ‘abandoned’ the working class in its northern and (...)
The election of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister and the bitter defeat of the hopes of the Labour left represent a deeper cultural and institutional shift in the politics of the British Conservative and Unionist Party. They are not fools, the entitled gang who head the party, and the election (...)
It was probably no surprise that Joe Biden announced that the huge victory for Boris Johnson and the Conservatives and the mauling defeat of Labour under Jeremy Corbyn’s radical leadership was a warning to fellow Democrats to shun the leftism of Sanders and Warren and seek safety in the (...)
To grasp the real meaning of the 12 December UK general election result is to understand the history of a state born in mercantilism and sustained by centuries of empire and colonialism.
Allow me to explain.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, to give the UK its Sunday (...)
As Scotland hurtles towards independence we need an internationalist left and new electoral alliances.
It’s clear Johnson’s Tory party has won a big majority. I still expect Labour to take seats in the working class areas of southern England, but those gains will be overwhelmed by a swing to the (...)
This is our defeat, and we have to own it. As if we have a choice. And we know what this means. The body count from austerity and the hostile environment will multiply. An already fairly awful society is going to get brutally worse. And it is difficult to see how this won’t feed into yet more (...)
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