Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
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The last thing we need is a long war
There is no point in fantasising about a categorical defeat for Putin when even Zelensky has said that he isn't ready for Nato to use the Ukraine conflict to drain Russia — let's hope for a quick peace, writes ANDREW MURRAY
President Zelensky has now voiced concerns about Ukrainian lives being sacrificed to ‘exhaust’ Russia by some in Nato
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
With turnout plummeting and faith in Parliament collapsing, BERT SCHOUWENBURG explains how radical local government reform — including devolved taxation and removal of party politics from town halls — could restore power to communities currently ignored by profit-obsessed MPs
As food and fuel run out, Gaza’s doctors appeal to the world to end the ‘genocide of children,’ reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
While Trump threatens to send Haitian gang leaders to El Salvador's terror prison, DANNY SHAW reveals how these paramilitary groups are merely symptoms of US-backed neocolonial rule — the real terrorists are the CIA and international actors arming desperate youth to traumatise an unarmed population
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER
Mark Harvey pays tribute to a veteran of the days when the London building trade was a hotbed of working-class struggle, a legendary trade unionist, communist and poet
TWO THINGS at least could be expected from the moment the Ukraine war began. First, there would be reports of atrocities committed by Russian troops. And second, that Putin’s apologists would seek to dismiss such accounts as a “false flag” operation.
The horrifying reports of the killing of civilians in Bucha and elsewhere are likely to prove true in essence, even if exaggerated in scope.
The fact is that all armies commit atrocities in wartime, particularly if they are operating in a hostile environment, as the Russian army clearly is. To assert, as the Russian Defence Ministry did, that “not a single civilian” had been harmed by its forces is absurd. It assumes that the Russian army is either uniquely decent or uniquely disciplined. There is little evidence for either proposition.
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Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
