Review of The Starmer Symptom, edited by Mark Perryman, Pluto Press, £16.99. Jim Sillars The 2024 election was a strange electoral beast. A Tory government despised and held in contempt by many ...

Imagine a Labour Party that sets legislation so that over 100 people are arrested (including an 83-year-old) for protesting genocide and ethnic cleansing outside their own conference. As members tried ...

The announcement of a ‘BritCard’ – a digital ID scheme – is a sign of desperation from Keir Starmer’s beleaguered government, which is doomed to failure. The scheme, ...

British politics is undergoing a huge upheaval, as parties of the Left struggle to be born and the mainstream two-party ...

As people starve the elites gorge themselves at banquet. The grotesque Trump pantomime rolled into town and our PM rolled over. As Starmer promises his ‘second phase’ of government will be about ...

Hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” have disappeared. Democracy Now! speaks with Shirsho Dasgupta, a ...

This is from the excellent Democracy for Sale, which I recommend as one of the fastest-growing monitors of corruption in politics. Follow them here. In this episode, Peter Geoghegan speaks to ...

Family Celebrates Political Prisoner’s Release in Egypt Egypt’s best-known political prisoner, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, was granted a presidential pardon on ...

On the day that an independent inquiry by the United Nations concluded that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit ...

Launching a Crowdfunder is a venture into unknown territory, a sort of leap in the dark. What target should one set? Is it ...