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Prime Minister Keir Starmer (right) and Peter Mandelson, February 27, 2025
Labour Party / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at a press conference after a multinational coalition summit to facilitate shipping in the Strait of Hormuz once the US-Iran war ends, at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, France, April 17, 2026
Editorial / 18 April 2026
18 April 2026
Backdropped by ships in the Strait of Hormuz, damage, according to local witnesses caused by several recent airstrikes during the U.S.-Israel military campaign, is seen on a fishing pier in the port of Qeshm island, Iran, April 13, 2026
Middle East / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026
Policing / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

The British outsourcing giant quietly deleted mention of training US immigration agents after killings in Minneapolis intensified scrutiny of its controversial contracts. SOLOMON HUGHES reports

Referee Desi Bosilova during the Final on day sixteen of the Halo World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, May 4, 2025
Snooker / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

World Championship secured in Sheffield until 2045 as new generation of players prepares to compete, writes JAMES NALTON

Interview / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

TONY BURKE talks to Garth Cartwright author of Princes Amongst Men — Journeys With Romani Gypsy Musicians

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A displaced woman holding her dog sits in her tent in Beirut, Lebanon, awaiting an official order to return to her home in south Lebanon following a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, April 17, 2026
Lebanon / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026
Released prisoners, in a bus, are welcomed by family members and colleagues after they left Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, April 17, 2026
Southeast Asia / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at the IMF headquarters in Washington, April 16, 2026
Latin America / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II greets Corp. Ben Roberts-Smith from Australia, who was recently awarded the Victoria Cross, during an audience at Buckingham Palace in London, November 15, 2011
World / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026
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Policing / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

The British outsourcing giant quietly deleted mention of training US immigration agents after killings in Minneapolis intensified scrutiny of its controversial contracts. SOLOMON HUGHES reports

Palestinian students walk to school along a fence separating their village from a nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Carmel, which forces them to take an alternative route nearly twice as long, near the West Bank village of Umm al-Khair, April 14, 2026
Middle East / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING 

Museum strike. Photo: Henry Fowler
Features / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

By Henry Fowler, co-founder of Strike Map

DRONING UP: German chancellor Friedrich Merz and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy inspect drones made in German-Ukrainian cooperation in Berlin on Tuesday
Features / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

By signing strategic defence agreements with Ukraine, the German government has reached a new dimension of war involvement, says SEVIM DAGDELEN

Artist Frank Bowling at the launch of his new exhibition Seeking the Sublime, at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, which charts his career from the early 1960s to Yellow Map (2025), a major new painting being shown publicly for the first time. Picture date: Wednesday March 25, 2026
Culture / 16 April 2026
16 April 2026

Born from exclusion and resistance, black British art has carved out creative space to tell untold stories and challenge racism, says ROGER McKENZIE

Jeremy Corbyn speaking as he closes the Your Party founding two day conference at the ACC Liverpool, November 30, 2025
Opinion / 16 April 2026
16 April 2026

Your Party’s new membership rules pose a deeper question about socialist organisation: should a party lead the working class, or be led by it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE

Boxer Barry McGuigan, centre, celebrates after beating champion Eusebio Pedroza during the World Featherweight Championship, at Loftus Road Stadium in London
Class / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

From Ali to Hatton, the ring produces icons shaped by struggle, solidarity and the realities of class, writes JOHN WIGHT

Mercedes' George Russell during a press conference on day three of Formula One Aramco Pre-Season Testing at Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, February 20, 2026
Formula One / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

Mercedes driver will endure as Verstappen exit talk grows amid rule row 

England's Sadia Kabeya (left) and England's Lucy Packer after the Guinness Women's Six Nations 2026 match at the Allianz Stadium, London, April 11, 2026
Women’s rugby union / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026
England's Lucy Bronze celebrates scoring the winning penalty in the shoot-out after the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 quarter-final match at the Stadion Letzigrund in Zurich, Switzerland, July 17, 2025
Women’s Football / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026
Lime Garden in action April 2026 / Pic Paul Hudson/flickr/CC
Music review / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

EWAN KOTZ got to the Jacaranda Baltic in Liverpool only to be taken by strong songwriting of the emerging all-women Lime Garden

BRINGING APARTHEID TO ITS KNEES: US Democrat and civil rights campaigner Jesse Jackson who joined one of the marches through London to Trafalgar Square for the anti-Apartheid rally
Books / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

JOHN GREEN relishes the record of a life well lived in the service of the fight for justice and socialism

Denise Weinberg in The Blue Trail (2025) / IMDb
Cinema / 16 April 2026
16 April 2026

The Star's critics ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review The Blue Trail, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Colours of Time, Glenrothan

 

Mike Westbrook with Phil Minton and orchestra at Toynbee Studios in London on 2008 / Pic: Andy Newcombe/CC
Music / 15 April 2026
15 April 2026

CHRIS SEARLE on Mike Westbrook who died aged 90

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Music / 15 April 2026
15 April 2026

STEVE JOHNSON speaks to JIM MORAY about an album that marks 25 years since his first

ASKEW OPTICS: Exclusive class paradise
TV Network Monitor / 13 April 2026
13 April 2026

DENNIS BROE observes how cutbacks, mergers and AI create content detached from both reality and history itself