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
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
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
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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