For Britain, direct military aid is just the tip of the iceberg compared to the spiralling energy crisis that has fueled inflation, driven millions into fuel poverty and inflated corporate profits, reveals HELEN MERCER

HELEN MERCER welcomes an account of how US labour leadership collaborated with the state and betrayed their membership

A look at the writing of war correspondent James Aldridge 40 years ago reminds us of the eastern perspective when a second front was finally opened on D-Day, 1944, says HELEN MERCER

HELEN MERCER casts an experienced eye over an ambitious exhibition that nevertheless contains painful gaps

HELEN MERCER is disappointed by a depiction of Englands ‘coastal commons’ that lacks compassion and fails to illuminate the root causes of their decay

HELEN MERCER explains the parallels between the two cases, and why the Committee to Defend Julian Assange will be at the festival this year

HELEN MERCER applauds a book that restores the contribution of US communists to the Civil Rights movement

Melzer, an experienced and prestigious international lawyer, destroys the various narratives surrounding Assange