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US President Donald Trump stands in the presidential box as
Features / 20 March 2025
20 March 2025
As the ‘NRx movement’ plots to replace democracy with corporate-feudal dictatorship, Britain must pursue a radical alternative of local food security and genuine wealth redistribution to withstand the coming upheaval, writes ALAN SIMPSON
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Features / 30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Some hard political choices must be made in Trump’s post-truth era – starting by abandoning any illusions about the ‘special relationship’ and waking up to the need for bold policy-making on the climate, argues ALAN SIMPSON
PLUMMETING IN THE POLLS: Keir Starmer’s popularity ratings
3 January 2025
3 January 2025
Centrist governments around the world face rejection by their electorates as neoliberalism fails to deliver the public prosperity it never promised – and the same fate awaits Labour unless it starts to deliver for those struggling to survive, says ALAN SIMPSON
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Features / 2 December 2024
2 December 2024
Undaunted by Big Oil success, ALAN SIMPSON looks at alternatives to lack of courage and imagination stifling the Labour government and it policies
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Features / 1 November 2024
1 November 2024
As deadly weather events spread death and destruction, ALAN SIMPSON argues that Labour’s first Budget has failed to address the converging crises of climate breakdown and democratic alienation that require transformative change
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Features / 15 August 2024
15 August 2024
Following the wave of far-right violence, people came together across the land, demonstrating that we are so much better than the racists would have you believe and a better Britain can be built, writes ALAN SIMPSON
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Features / 15 July 2024
15 July 2024
From 1945-style credit creation to rapid decarbonisation, ALAN SIMPSON outlines the radical steps needed to tackle Britain’s crises — timidity risks squandering a historic opportunity
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Features / 27 June 2024
27 June 2024
Visionary leadership is needed to tackle the existential climate crisis, but Labour risks squandering any opportunity for transformative change by clinging to the neoliberal economic orthodoxy, writes ALAN SIMPSON
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Features / 17 May 2024
17 May 2024
A new generation of protesters is targeting the warmongers promoting Israel’s ethnic cleansing who are determined to live outside the law, writes ALAN SIMPSON
Tractors pass in front of the Coliseum in a farmers’ prote
Features / 18 February 2024
18 February 2024
We need alternative modes of food production, but these won’t come out of an adherence to today’s corporately rigged markets or from a politics desperate to become more anodyne by the day, warns ALAN SIMPSON
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Features / 30 January 2024
30 January 2024
The right can offer divisions and diversions to justify our increasingly broken society, but the left can marry genuinely transformative policies with the one thing our enemies can never offer: hope, explains ALAN SIMPSON
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer gives a speech, at the
Features / 7 January 2024
7 January 2024
What use is Starmer’s politics that ‘treads lighter on our lives,’ when the scale of the problems Britain is facing are crying out for drastic action, says ALAN SIMPSON