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
Little bread and a depressing royal circus
The traditional prescription to stave off revolt looks increasingly unfit for purpose — whether a socialist revolution is near or not, Elizabeth II's funeral will surely be the last monarchist outpouring of significant size, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Prince Harry in Helmand, presumably deciding whether to add another Afghan to his claimed 25-person death toll
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
IN 1919 the ruling class was worried. The end of World War I had developed into something close to a revolutionary situation in Britain as working-class militancy, the Russian example, rising anti-imperialist agitation in the colonies, discontented troops and economic dislocation combined to threaten the rule of the capitalist class.
Sir Basil Thomson, head of the intelligence and security services, reported to the Cabinet on the problems stirring up revolutionary feelings.
They included profiteering, bad housing, the foolish ostentation of the rich, “extreme” trade union leaders, a growing pro-Labour Party press, unemployment and the circulation of Marxist literature.
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