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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during a press conference on the Immigration White Paper in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London
Features / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

As Starmer flies to Albania seeking deportation camps while praising Giorgia Meloni, KEVIN OVENDEN warns that without massive campaigns rejecting this new overt government xenophobia, Britain faces a soaring hard right and emboldened fascist thugs on the streets

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Exhibition review / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

KEN COCKBURN assesses the art of Ian Hamilton Finlay for the experience of warfare it incited and represents

Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (left) FIFA President Gianni Infantino (centre) and Russian President Vladimir Putin watch the match between Russia and Saudi Arabia at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, on June 14, 2018
Men’s football / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

Report raises alarm over ‘preventable deaths’ of labourers in Saudi Arabia

People take part in the People's Assembly Britain is Broken national demonstration in central London, November 5, 2022
Britain / 15 May 2025
15 May 2025

People's Assembly demo on June 7 will warn ministers to stop the cuts and invest or face oblivion

The Rebirth of the African Phoenix, by Roger McKenzie
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Russian and Ukrainian delegations attend talks at the Dolmabache palace, in Istanbul, Turkey, May 16, 2025
Russia-Ukraine / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025
President of Gabon Ali Bongo Ondimba addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, on September 21, 2022 at U.N. headquarters
World / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025
A volunteer awaits to welcome delegates during the inauguration of an environment conference named Sagarmatha Sambaad (Mount Everest Dialogue) at the Soaltee Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, May 16, 2025
Nepal / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025
The United Nations flag flies on a stormy day at the U.N. during the United Nations General Assembly, September 22, 2022
United Nations / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025
Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (right) and Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra shake hands in Hanoi, Vietnam, May 16, 2025
World / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025
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Karim Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court looks up prior to a press conference in The Hague, Netherlands, July 3, 2023
Gaza Genocide / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

MOLLY QUELL reports on the sanctions placed on International Criminal Court officials by the Trump regime, making it increasingly difficult for the tribunal to conduct even basic tasks

THE STRANGEWRS THAT CARE: Residents and staff of Peartree Care Home are visited by Minister for Social Care Helen Whately.  Pic: Lauren Hurley/DHSC/flickr/CC
Features / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

It’s where she was looked after and loved by workers who don’t deserve Starmer’s ugly condemnation, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

UNITED WE STAND: A lantern parade in Liverpool marks the reopening of Spellow Community Hub and Library after it was torched during riots in August 2024
Politics / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

BILL GREENSHIELDS urges an intensification of the information offensive against the impact of the spurious discourse peddled by Reform UK

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History / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

MAT COWARD tells the story of Edward Maxted, whose preaching of socialism led to a ‘peasants’ revolt’ in the weeks running up to the first world war

SOBERING FIGURES: Vote counting for the Runcorn and Helsby by-election on May 1 2025
Opinion / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

VINCE MILLS gathers some sobering facts that would inevitably be major obstacles to any such initiative

Sabrina Carpenter performs during The BRIT Awards 2025 at London's O2 Arena, March 1, 2025
Features / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

Labour’s pop-loving front bench have snaffled up even more music tickets worth thousands apiece, reports SOLOMON HUGHES

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Representatives attend FIFA's 75th Congress at the Conmebol Convention Center in Luque, Paraguay, Thursday, May 15, 2025
Men’s football / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

The PFA is urging Fifa action against illegal Israeli settlement clubs and incitement to genocide, writes JAMES NALTON

Fans hold up signs for Indiana Fever's Caitlin Clark before the start of a WNBA basketball game against the New York Liberty, May 18, 2024, in New York
Women’s basketball / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025
Manchester United manager Marc Skinner speaks to his players during the Barclays Women's Super League match at Old Trafford, Manchester. Picture date: Sunday May 4, 2025
Women’s football / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025
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Attila the Stockbroker Diary / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

The bard gives us advance notice of his upcoming medieval K-pop releases

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Books / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

GORDON PARSONS steps warily through the pessimistic world view of an influential US conservative

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Books / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

HENRY BELL takes issue with the assertion that basic income is a remedy for poverty when it doesn’t address the inbuilt inequality of capitalism

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Books / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile

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Cannes Film Festival 2025 / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

RITA DI SANTO surveys the smorgasbord of films on offer at this year’s festival

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Cinema / 15 May 2025
15 May 2025

Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA