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Features / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
Despite liberal whining that Trump threatens the ‘international rules-based order,’ the historical record shows Western nations have repeatedly overthrown democracies, backed genocides and violated sovereignty, writes IAN SINCLAIR
The Palisades Fire that started in the City of Los Angeles,
Books / 1 April 2025
1 April 2025
IAN SINCLAIR draws attention to the powerful role that literature plays in foreseeing the way humanity will deal with climate crisis
In this photo provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade
Features / 29 March 2025
29 March 2025
Detailing the deluge of delusion and dishonesty pushed by the pro-war camp, IAN SINCLAIR identifies four key tactics corporate journalists use to confuse audiences and suppress opposition to the proxy war in the east
Album reviews / 24 March 2025
24 March 2025
New releases from Black Country, New Road, Anouar Brahem, and Jaywalkers
The US-based MSG group wanted to build one of their light-po
Features / 9 January 2025
9 January 2025
IAN SINCLAIR tells the story of a small group of east London activists who took on and defeated a billion-dollar US corporation that wanted to build a giant sphere venue coated in gaudy LED lights
FINGERS IN THE SYRIAN PIE: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer a
Features / 2 January 2025
2 January 2025
The media’s shocking lack of interest in US-British involvement in Syria means it has effectively been a secret war, argues IAN SINCLAIR
Music / 12 December 2024
12 December 2024
New releases from Ghais Guevara, Kim Deal and Hardwicke Circus
Bill Breeden talks to the press after the execution of Corey
Features / 9 December 2024
9 December 2024
Ian Sinclair talks to BILL BREEDEN, a retired Unitarian Universalist minister living in southern Indiana, and a longstanding opponent of the death penalty in the United States
ARCHITECTS OF SLAUGHTER : Jonathan Powell (right)and Alastai
Features / 23 November 2024
23 November 2024
The British press has welcomed Keir Starmer’s new National Security Adviser without any mention of his deep, central involvement in the criminal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan — but history remembers, writes IAN SINCLAIR
ACTION: A Fossil Free London activist disrupts the 2023 Shel
Features / 9 November 2024
9 November 2024
As a new report reveals how dire the climate situation is now, other recent research demonstrates how activism – namely Extinction Rebellion and the school strikes – has already forced governments into action, writes IAN SINCLAIR
FUELLING CONFLICT: Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte (right)
Features / 19 October 2024
19 October 2024
Ian Sinclair interviews MEDEA BENJAMIN and DAVID SWANSON about their new book on Nato, explaining how the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia established a template for military interventions, undermining international law and diplomacy
From left to right: Leslie Barson (Peace News Ltd director a
Features / 28 September 2024
28 September 2024
IAN SINCLAIR mourns the end of the longstanding activist newspaper that proudly stood ‘For Revolutionary Nonviolence’
PEACE RADICAL: James Lawson in 2013
Obituary / 3 September 2024
3 September 2024
Strategist of non-violent action dies age 95
Just Stop Oil protesters take part in a walking protest bloc
Features / 24 August 2024
24 August 2024
Social scientist DANA R FISHER speaks to Ian Sinclair about the efficacy of disruptive actions carried out by groups such as Just Stop Oil, the conditions that might generate a truly mass climate mobilisation, and what a win for Kamala Harris in the upcoming US presidential election would mean
AUTHORITARIAN: Crown Prince of Kuwait, Sheikh Mishal al-Ahma
Features / 19 July 2024
19 July 2024
Why has our government been silent on the months-long shutdown of Kuwait’s parliament – and why do academics so often refrain from criticising countries in the region, asks IAN SINCLAIR
Mourners attend the funeral of Muhammad Sarhan,15, in the We
Features / 14 July 2024
14 July 2024
From Palestine to Cameroon, ELLEN FURNARI speaks to Ian Sinclair about how non-violent strategies and local relationships offer effective alternatives to military interventions in protecting civilians from conflict
SCARING THE ELITES: An anti-war march in Manchester city cen
Features / 29 June 2024
29 June 2024
Statistics show conclusively that the majority of Brits have repeatedly frightened the Establishment by consistently opposing military adventurism abroad, writes IAN SINCLAIR
roups including Friends of the Earth Scotland, Stop Climate
Features / 14 May 2024
14 May 2024
Major cities underwater, a billion climate refugees — many scientists now expect societal collapse due to climate change. Yet from the political elite here in Britain, we have nothing even approaching acknowledgement, writes IAN SINCLAIR
The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at its headquart
Features / 6 May 2024
6 May 2024
Ian Sinclair speaks to SUSAN WILLIAMS about Britain and the US’s dark machinations against African leaders and nations they decided were at odds with their geopolitical interests in the 20th century — and the ongoing cover-up attempts
DISSUADED: Disengaged members of the public watch Extinction
Books / 29 April 2024
29 April 2024
IAN SINCLAIR recommends a book that points to ‘deep societal transformation’ as the only way to arrest climate change
LINKING THE MOVEMENTS: NHS staff show their support for prot
Features / 2 April 2024
2 April 2024
Speaking to RUPERT READ, Ian Sinclair discusses the urgency of climate action, the demise of the 1.5°C target, and the pivotal role of trade unions in building a majority against climate change
GAZA ON MY MIND: School and university students take part in
Features / 24 February 2024
24 February 2024
When a government seems impossible to influence over an issue as life-or-death as war, it can lead those people left unheard to creative non-violent direct action — or to deadly brutality, warns IAN SINCLAIR
PEACE IS NOT AN OPTION: Prime minister Boris Johnson in Kyiv
Features / 14 February 2024
14 February 2024
A new report analyses how Western messaging during and after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine portrayed Russia’s motivations as pure, unprovoked expansionism — all in aid of prolonging the violence, explains IAN SINCLAIR
Music / 29 January 2024
29 January 2024
New releases from: Pharoah Sanders, Bill Ryder-Jones and Violent Femmes
Al Jazeera recently reported it had received a letter from e
Features / 7 December 2023
7 December 2023
Just like with the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, the British public cannot trust the media to provide accurate, critical or historically contextual coverage of the war on Gaza, asserts IAN SINCLAIR
HISTORY OF SUCCESS: Non-violent campaigns won against aparth
Features / 24 November 2023
24 November 2023
The rush to understand and explain the context of the events of October 7 has revealed a growing ignorance about the effectiveness and logic of unarmed methods — IAN SINCLAIR responds
Features / 11 November 2023
11 November 2023
Ian Sinclair speaks to legal expert MARJORIE COHN about what international law says in regard to Israel’s right to self-defence, and Israeli actions against Palestinians more generally
Features / 6 November 2023
6 November 2023
In the second of two interviews on atomic conflict, Ian Sinclair speaks to peace activist MILAN RAI about the popular framing of Britain’s nuclear weapons being for ‘deterrence,’ and to explain his claim that Britain has carried out ‘nuclear terrorism’
The Mark 39 Nuclear Bomb carried by US B-52 bombers until 19
Features / 6 November 2023
6 November 2023
In the first of two interviews on peace and conflict, Ian Sinclair speaks to JOSEPH GERSON about his seminal 2007 book Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World
CHANGING TIMES: Tony Whitehead (centre) and his partner John
Features / 15 October 2023
15 October 2023
It is not in the interests of the Establishment to recognise the impact protest movements have had on everything from gay rights to ecology, but the evidence shows their role is essential, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Culture / 20 September 2023
20 September 2023
New releases from The Mary Wallopers, Wilco, and Setting
Members of Fossil Free London protest the Shell AGM at Londo
Features / 4 September 2023
4 September 2023
IAN SINCLAIR gives the lowdown on a swathe of new environmental action campaigns that have sprung up in recent years
People take part in a protest against the proposed ultra-low
Features / 20 August 2023
20 August 2023
Ian Sinclair spoke to respiratory specialist DR LAURA-JANE SMITH about how the impact of air pollution on our health is badly underestimated and the kind of legislation needed across Britain to fight it
Culture / 14 August 2023
14 August 2023
Reviews of Ani DiFranco, The Clientele and Emma Rawicz
Features / 6 July 2023
6 July 2023
Ian Sinclair speaks to LILLAH FEARNLEY about her research on the power of opinion polls on government decisions such as military intervention against Syria — and how the powerful shape this critical research
Music / 3 July 2023
3 July 2023
New releases from Bonny Doon, Speech Debelle and Jacob Young
 US soldiers of the North Carolina Army National Guard in ea
Features / 16 May 2023
16 May 2023
With billions of dollars’ worth of weapons sent and thousands of US soldiers stationed, how was the myth of US non-intervention in Syria created, asks IAN SINCLAIR
Features / 26 April 2023
26 April 2023
IAN SINCLAIR demonstrates how we may have more power over the current Tory regime than we realise — an opportunity to force positive political change we should grab with both hands
Music / 10 April 2023
10 April 2023
Reviews of Niaill Summerton, Boygenius, and Molina, Talbot, Lofgren and Young
An XR activist is carried away from a blockade in the City o
Features / 7 April 2023
7 April 2023
The founder of Social Change Lab spoke to Ian Sinclair about how their work informs, and is informed by, the strategy of the burgeoning climate movement that has grown around Extinction Rebellion
The latest donor information on the websites of Chatham Hous
Features / 28 March 2023
28 March 2023
By investigating the funding of 45 of the world’s top think tanks and interviewing their staff, new research has shown serious conflicts of interest leading to endemic self-censorship in foreign policy analysis, reports IAN SINCLAIR
Iraqi men are frisked at gunpoint by soldiers of the 1st Bat
Features / 8 March 2023
8 March 2023
The hostility towards elections and democracy by the US-British military administration that brutally overran the nation in 2003 was well documented at the time — as was the mass movement for free elections, writes IAN SINCLAIR
VIBRANT: Anti-war demonstrators make their way down to picca
Features / 15 February 2023
15 February 2023
Although it came very close, the enormous Stop the War demonstration 20 years ago did not stop the Iraq war – but we must remember the huge impact it had on Britain’s ability to wage future wars, says IAN SINCLAIR
DENIED A HEARING: The British media are complicit with the L
Features / 8 February 2023
8 February 2023
IAN SINCLAIR looks at the continuing smears against the former Labour leader, now being used to block him for standing for Labour in the seat he has represented since 1983
Children in Afghanistan
Features / 20 January 2023
20 January 2023
Direct US-British military intervention may have receded for now, but the devastating effect of economic sanctions continues to kill in the same numbers as a war would — we cannot let the public look away yet, writes IAN SINCLAIR
An estimated 77 per cent of the 4.3m people displaced in Yem
Features / 31 December 2022
31 December 2022
With Christmas and new year centred around children, how many of us have given a thought over the holiday season to the children of Yemen — and how much of the general public knows of Britain’s role in their suffering, asks IAN SINCLAIR
Culture / 19 December 2022
19 December 2022
Features / 5 December 2022
5 December 2022
We still suffer under the delusion that selective state schools help social mobility — in fact, they enforce inequality, and once you adjust for other factors their attainment is no better than normal schools. As always, class is elephant in the room, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Music / 4 December 2022
4 December 2022
New releases from Richard Dawson, Iris DeMent and Will Sheff
Culture / 21 November 2022
21 November 2022
IAN SINCLAIR reviews releases from The Libertines, Bruce Springsteen and Garrett Saracho
Features / 20 November 2022
20 November 2022
As the World Cup begins, the British government’s close links with the authoritarian monarchy in Doha and its multimillion-pound arms deals have been carefully placed out of sight, says IAN SINCLAIR
The tail of a rocket sticks out of the ground near the recen
Analysis / 11 November 2022
11 November 2022
The West is hell-bent on prolonging its proxy war endlessly. IAN SINCLAIR provides the evidence
ANSWERS NEEDED: People take part in a climate protest in Dub
Features / 28 October 2022
28 October 2022
When the Tories scapegoated their opponents as the ‘anti-growth coalition,’ the left and workers’ movement fell over itself to say the opposite was the case, however IAN SINCLAIR warns we have known for decades infinite growth on a finite planet is not a realistic possibility
North Pole, the dark ocean surface reflects only six per cen
BOOKS / 22 October 2022
22 October 2022
IAN SINCLAIR recommends a book that warns of ‘widespread social and ecological collapse within the next few decades’
Features / 11 October 2022
11 October 2022
Obesity expert TAM FRY talks to Ian Sinclair about the simple measures that could truly tackle the nation’s weight problem — and why successive governments have been so unwilling to take on big business and enact them
Culture / 10 October 2022
10 October 2022
New releases from Bonny Light Horseman, Keith Jarrett and Dry Cleaning
Jim Ghedi
Music Review / 29 August 2022
29 August 2022
IAN SINCLAIR recommends Jim Ghedi’s interpretation of Harry Cox’s What Will Become Of England
Culture / 28 August 2022
28 August 2022
New releases from Friendship, Manic Street Preachers and Butcher Brown
COUGHT IN THE ACT: Salman Abedi, carrying the bomb in a ruck
Documentary Film Review / 23 August 2022
23 August 2022
IAN SINCLAIR recommends a documentary that assembles a mass of information on the background of the Manchester Arena bombing and Britain's duplicitous politics of the time
Culture / 31 July 2022
31 July 2022
New releases from Ezra Furman, Sessa and David Ian Roberts
DIRECT ACTION: Environmental protesters from Animal Rebellio
Features / 24 July 2022
24 July 2022
We are familiar with the damage tobacco and fossil fuels do — and know that they have spent billions on hiding this. But we largely do not realise the pernicious effect of the meat industry on obscuring the drastic need to reduce animal consumption to fight global warming, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Culture / 18 July 2022
18 July 2022
New releases from Tallies, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Steve Tibbetts
Features / 7 July 2022
7 July 2022
If we truly have our preferences realised best by voting, why is Parliament at odds with the public on nationalisation, rent caps, climate change and everything else which may eat into corporate profit margins, asks IAN SINCLAIR
Music / 28 June 2022
28 June 2022
New releases from Ferkat Al Ard, Shabaka, and Stars
Music / 19 June 2022
19 June 2022
New releases from Trombone Shorty, Laura Veirs, and Noori & His Dorpa Band
Dr Peter Kalmus
Features / 7 June 2022
7 June 2022
PETER KALMUS talks to Ian Sinclair about his anti-fossil fuel protest that led to jail, the barriers scientists face when speaking out, and the importance of mass civil disobedience
Extinction Rebellion (XR) protest in Westminster, London.
Features / 15 May 2022
15 May 2022
There is a left and right to environmentalism - and indeed a right and wrong: those who think infinite growth can continue under ‘green capitalism’ and those that face up to the truth of degrowth and regulating the market, explains IAN SINCLAIR
Gordon Brown’s importance to events is highlighted by the
Features / 4 April 2022
4 April 2022
Allowing those who are brazen and unabashed breakers of international law and killers of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans to lead the condemnation chorus on Russia's violations is British establishment hypocrisy distilled, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Music / 4 April 2022
4 April 2022
New releases from Barrie, Neil Young and Katie Spencer
Features / 29 March 2022
29 March 2022
British imperialism keeps its role in the Middle East shrouded in secrecy because it supports the worst objectives and most backwards regimes going — but the public can be informed and mobilised against this, explains IAN SINCLAIR
Features / 22 March 2022
22 March 2022
Numerous studies and analysts agree that whether socialists actually come to power or not, the ‘threat’ of socialism inspires the capitalist class to make all of our lives better, regardless of our own politics, explains IAN SINCLAIR
Music / 13 March 2022
13 March 2022
New releases from Father John Misty, Let’s Eat Grandma and Brad Mehldau
Western press coverage of the Russian invasion is in stark c
Features / 13 March 2022
13 March 2022
The British media is right cover the plight of the Ukrainians in detail — but if it paid the same attention to Yemen, a conflict Britain is actually a major player in, that war would be over in a week, explains IAN SINCLAIR
Insulate Britain climate activists take part in a demonstrat
Features / 6 March 2022
6 March 2022
Writer and campaigner CHRIS SALTMARSH talks to Ian Sinclair about why socialist state intervention is the key to saving the planet and what we can do to bring it about
Palestinian mourners carry the body of 14-year-old Mohammed
Features / 25 February 2022
25 February 2022
Instead of raising Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem’s condemnations of the treatment of Palestinians, the party continues to praise Israel, says IAN SINCLAIR
Placards prepared for people taking part in a protest over Y
Features / 15 February 2022
15 February 2022
The Tories said they'd support Saudi aggression 'in every practical way short of engaging in combat' and our arms companies are central to the slaughter —so why isn't Yemen a priority for the British left, asks IAN SINCLAIR
Prime minister Neville Chamberlain (left) waves his hat as h
Opinion / 3 February 2022
3 February 2022
IAN SINCLAIR weighs up the colourblind casting in the recently released film Munich – The Edge of War and its wider implications
Music / 31 January 2022
31 January 2022
Features / 21 January 2022
21 January 2022
IAN SINCLAIR says it is no surprise that the media has not accurately reported the fact that Russia proposed a treaty of mutual nuclear de-escalation last year — the aggressive nature of Britain’s bomb is always kept secret from the public
Culture / 16 January 2022
16 January 2022
New releases from JP Bimeni & The Black Belts, Beirut and Anais Mitchell
DIFFERENT BATTLEFIELD: British Army soldiers reinforce an em
Book Review / 29 December 2021
29 December 2021
IAN SINCLAIR recommends a book that lucidly addresses many an aspect of the institution that is the British army
Music / 29 November 2021
29 November 2021
New releases from Aya, The Fall and Jon Hopkins
Music / 21 November 2021
21 November 2021
Latest releases from Courtney Barnett, Nation of Language and Henry Parker
Bruce Springsteen performs during the Invictus Games Closing
Features / 8 November 2021
8 November 2021
First a joint podcast, now a book — why is the American cultural icon whose music speaks to the plight of the working class allowing himself to be so closely asscociated with a centrist Democrat soaked in the blood of military aggression, asks IAN SINCLAIR
(L to R) My Morning Jacket, Reb Fountain and Jason Isbell &
Culture / 24 October 2021
24 October 2021
New releases from Reb Fountain, My Morning Jacket and Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
Features / 3 October 2021
3 October 2021
After the fall of Kabul, the BBC's flagship news programme chose to interview only those who were likely to sympathise or feel complicit with the failed 20-year occupation — but it is also who they didn't speak to that reveals the state broadcaster's agenda, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Louisa Roach, aka She Drew The Gun
Interview: / 2 October 2021
2 October 2021
Self-professed socialist, feminist and proud mother to one LOUISA ROACH, aka She Drew The Gun, speaks to the Star’s Ian Sinclair about her new album, music and politics, and the Labour Party post-Corbyn
A ruined street in Kabul, 2002
Features / 14 September 2021
14 September 2021
Misleading narratives about the Afghan invasion and its motives are still promoted by the BBC and others. The families of those who died in this futile adventure deserve a proper national reckoning, says IAN SINCLAIR
Culture / 7 September 2021
7 September 2021
Langkamer, Big Red Machine, Matthew Milia
Tony Blair pictured with Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan
Features / 5 September 2021
5 September 2021
Although the US and British governments and their cheerleaders in the media often claim benign intentions, actual foreign policy decisions tell a different story, writes IAN SINCLAIR
MUSIC / 16 July 2021
16 July 2021
Latest releases from Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth, The Go! Team and modern jazz artists
Opinion / 8 July 2021
8 July 2021
IAN SINCLAIR charts the last six months of governmental decision making riddled with ineptidude, bloody-mindedness and plain ignorance
MUSIC / 6 July 2021
6 July 2021
Latest releases from The Mountain Goats, Eboni Band and LUMP
Features / 27 June 2021
27 June 2021
We must resist the tendency to see our protests for peace as failures if they do not end a specific conflict: looking at the evidence from Vietnam to Iraq, they have had a profound effect on curtailing military aggression, explains IAN SINCLAIR
MUSIC / 20 June 2021
20 June 2021
Latest releases from Miles Davis, Faye Webster and Black Midi
EMPATH: Rosie Wilby
BOOKS / 17 June 2021
17 June 2021
Engagingly comic take on positives and negatives of love's labours lost
Aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth off the coast of Portug
Features / 28 May 2021
28 May 2021
IAN SINCLAIR points out that while the media increasingly castigate Russia for interfering in UK politics it mysteriously stays silent about a far more extensive US meddling
MUSIC / 16 May 2021
16 May 2021
Latest releases from Nik Bartsch, Van Morrison and TEKE::TEKE
MUSIC / 4 May 2021
4 May 2021
Latest releases from Sons of Kemet, Bob Mould and Johanna Samuels
SELF-EVIDENT TRUTH: NHS workers reiterate the link between h
BOOKS / 28 April 2021
28 April 2021
Urgent call for radical action on climate crisis
Features / 22 April 2021
22 April 2021
With the liberal press unwilling to even try to hold them to account, history needs the true story of the Tories’ Covid failures. IAN SINCLAIR introduces his new comprehensive report on the scandal that cost thousands of lives
MUSIC / 20 April 2021
20 April 2021
Latest releases from Roger Fakhr, Ryley Walker and Le SuperHomard & Maxwell Farrington
NEW ERA: A US F-111F aircraft takes off from RAF Lakenheath
FICTION / 11 April 2021
11 April 2021
Engrossing political thriller with a leftish slant
Opinion / 8 April 2021
8 April 2021
IAN SINCLAIR busts some myths about what zero Covid means – and what it does not mean
MUSIC / 7 April 2021
7 April 2021
Latest releases from Fruit Bats, Valerie June and Field Music
MUSIC / 24 March 2021
24 March 2021
Latest releases from Hiss Golden Messenger, Joao Selva and Veronica Swift
Features / 23 March 2021
23 March 2021
Two interviews, a classic face-off between Andrew Marr and Noam Chomsky and a more recent discussion hosted by Al Jazeera, reveal how only those who believe they are unbiased — because the Establishment is always right — rise to the top of our state broadcaster, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Features / 17 March 2021
17 March 2021
Ian Sinclair talks to academic JOEL BAKAN about his new book on corporate power and asks whether multinational giants have really changed and what concerned citizens can do to resist capital’s assault on democracy
MUSIC / 14 March 2021
14 March 2021
Ian Sinclair reviews the latest releases from Declan O’Rourke, Israel Nash and Renee Reed
Just as concern about smoking and health led to industry com
Features / 25 February 2021
25 February 2021
A new series looking at the war on truth that began in the 1950s shows that it's not the propaganda efforts of foreign states that threatens humanity — it's corporate PR, writes IAN SINCLAIR
MUSIC / 23 February 2021
23 February 2021
Latest releases from Tamil Rogeon, Neil Young and Dean McPhee
RESISTANCE: Direct action against road-building
BOOKS / 16 February 2021
16 February 2021
Inspiring account of pioneering protest which lit the torch of the anti-roads movement
Hillary Clinton in 2016
Features / 16 February 2021
16 February 2021
The former secretary of state has had a deadly impact on women and their families in nations like Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan, says IAN SINCLAIR
MUSIC / 11 February 2021
11 February 2021
Latest releases from Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry, Cassandra Jenkins and Black Country New Road
MUSIC / 27 January 2021
27 January 2021
Latest releases from Enrico Pieranunzi and Bert Joris, Julien Baker and Femi Kuti and Made Kuti
Features / 19 January 2021
19 January 2021
Ian Sinclair asks ROY WILKES from the Zero Covid campaign to explain what ‘zero-Covid’ actually means, whether other nations have had success following this strategy and what concerned citizens can do to support the campaign
MUSIC / 12 January 2021
12 January 2021
Latest releases from Elina Duni and Rob Luft, The Hold Steady and Lael Neale
Tim Kasser is emeritus professor of psychology at Knox Colle
Features / 11 January 2021
11 January 2021
Ian Sinclair talks to professor of psychology TIM KASSER about the role of TV in shaping our views on global warming and what governments and citizens can do to address the issue
Features / 22 December 2020
22 December 2020
IAN SINCLAIR talks to experts from Climate Action Tracker about the world position today in terms of government policies and temperature rise, how recent events in the US and China might affect global temperature and Britain’s own policy responses
NO PLACE TO HIDE: Protesters outside at the Chilcot inquiry
Features / 18 December 2020
18 December 2020
IAN SINCLAIR takes a look at the lasting damage done by the lies that took us to war at a time Labour is again embracing militarism
DAMN GOOD: Bob Dylan
BEST OF 2020 / 13 December 2020
13 December 2020
Joe Glenton (left) interviewing the families of those killed
Film of the Week / 4 December 2020
4 December 2020
Kill or Capture: Inside the CIA’s Secret Afghan Army
Music / 1 December 2020
1 December 2020
Features / 29 November 2020
29 November 2020
The euphoria that has greeted President-elect Joe Biden's victory from the pages of the liberal press is inexcusable: he has a 40-year career which clearly shows he is on the right-wing of the Democrat Party and utterly committed to the 'Washington Consensus' — a huge supporter of neoliberalism and foreign invasions, writes IAN SINCLAIR
A protester opposes the bombing campaign
Features / 22 November 2020
22 November 2020
The more responsibility the British government and media have for the deaths of people around the world, the less interest they take in these deaths, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Culture / 18 November 2020
18 November 2020
Music / 3 November 2020
3 November 2020
British soliders training in Oman in 2017
Features / 11 October 2020
11 October 2020
Despite the shockingly high number of Britons who are proud of the empire, even the BBC’s own recent radio documentary exposes the malevolent reality of British foreign policy, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Features / 29 September 2020
29 September 2020
DR ANDREW BOSWELL, an independent environmental consultant and former Green Party councillor, assisted in the drafting of the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill. Here he tells Ian Sinclair about the Bill’s key components and why it is so desperately needed
Features / 22 September 2020
22 September 2020
2050 puts the state’s responsibility for action way too far back — and it's based on the most conservative estimates too. We need to address this as what it is: a crisis, argues IAN SINCLAIR
MUSIC / 10 September 2020
10 September 2020
Latest releases from Emma Swift, Bill Callahan and Fontaines D.C.
MUSIC / 28 August 2020
28 August 2020
Latest releases from H.C. McEntire, The Flaming Lips and David Ian Roberts