Outrage greeted Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that Britain stayed off the front lines. But evidence suggests our forces were at times pulled from the most dangerous fighting — not by military failure, but by pressure at home, says IAN SINCLAIR

New releases from Brown Horse, Johnny Blue Skies & The Dark Clouds, and The Sophs

New releases from Joe Pernice, Arlo Parks, and Marilyn Crispell & Anders Jormin

The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR

New releases from Shabaka, Squeeze, and Roswell Road

IAN SINCLAIR looks at how we are made to swallow, without question, the porkies fed to us by the mass media

IAN SINCLAIR welcomes a mainstream scholar to the ranks of left-wing critique of US foreign policy

New releases from Bill Callahan, The Delines, and Beck

New releases from Pat Metheny, Greazy Alice, and Momoko Gill

New releases from Keeley, Lucinda Williams and Ye Vagabonds

As liberal commentators puzzle over the Prime Minister’s record-breaking unpopularity, the reasons remain glaringly obvious to everyone else, says IAN SINCLAIR

IAN SINCLAIR revels in the reissue of great recordings by one of the most recognisable and radical voices in British music