ANDREW MURRAY surveys a quaking continent whose leaders have no idea how to respond to an openly contemptuous United States
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The media’s shocking lack of interest in US-British involvement in Syria means it has effectively been a secret war, argues IAN SINCLAIR
Based on his experience of Haringey Council Councillor MARK BLAKE believes only a radical policy rethink will reconnect councils with the alienated constituencies they are supposed to serve
Last week the CPUSA launched a new Rapid Response project aimed at mobilising a popular resistance to policies enacted by the new government. CAMERON HARRISON explains
“THE press and politicians for the most part keep the people of this country in ignorance of the real treatment meted out to the natives,” Keir Hardie noted in 1906.
While much has changed in the intervening 119 years, this quote from the Labour Party’s first parliamentary leader remains an astute observation about much of the British media today.
The British military and their political masters are, of course, still keen to keep the often dirty and deadly reality of British foreign policy from the public. For example, in his 2021 book The Changing Of The Guard, author Simon Akam explains the British army’s “highly restrictive media policies meant that much of the fighting” during the British occupation of Iraq “went unreported.”
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