Gaza’s collective sumud has proven more powerful than one of the world’s best-equipped militaries, but the change in international attitudes isn’t happening fast enough to save a starving population from Western-backed genocide, argues RAMZY BAROUD
As Boris falters, boredom is no alternative
ANDREW MURRAY looks at Starmer’s ‘wait-and-wait-some-more’ tactics, the reassuring flop that was the pro-war, pro-Nato demo in London, and Piers Morgan’s lack of perspective when it comes to who wields real power in ‘cancel culture’
Boris Johnson’s problem is that for him life seems to be one long party, his own rules notwithstanding. Keir Starmer on the other hand looks like a man who wouldn’t go to a party under any circumstances whatsoever — nor is he the sort of guest anyone would put at the top of their invite list.
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
JOHN PERRY, BECCA RENK and ROGER D HARRIS offer a corrective to the idea that Latin America still lags far behind the West on women’s rights by looking at the region’s significant feminist gains now stretching back decades
Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
THIS is where we end up if we rely on the Tory Party’s sense of shame. Crooks in Downing Street apparently determined to brazen out their law-breaking — and getting away with it.
The Conservative Party, once trading as the epitome of bourgeois probity, is indulging Boris Johnson for disregarding the very laws he wrote.
The morality of his behaviour seems of marginal concern to the one group that can remove him from office, Tory MPs and the Cabinet in particular.
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