The massacre of Red Crescent and civil defence aid workers has elicited little coverage and no condemnation by major powers — this is the age of lawlessness, warns JOE GILL

The trio were given a conditional discharge and £600 penalties after painting ‘Stop arming Israel’ on Science Secretary Peter Kyle’s window in frustration at being ignored despite attempts to meet their MP, reports JOE GILL

JOE GILL hazards a guess: Musk’s salute was a message to all of the world’s far-right legions: now is our time

From their apartheid-era childhoods to Trump’s inner circle, billionaires Elon Musk and Peter Thiel bring a colonial ‘divide and rule’ mindset to the global far-right project, where the masses turn on each other, writes JOE GILL

The left must call out the fact that BlackRock and private billionaires have merged with the state apparatus as our leaders abandon any pretence of there being a ‘free market’ for direct and overt corporate control, writes JOE GILL

A Tory-lite Labour Party is clearly unpopular with the electorate who are desperate to see actual improvement to Britain’s decimated public services, writes JOE GILL

Last week’s Democratic National Convention showed Harris is offering more of the same war agenda as Biden, writes JOE GILL

The analysis of the pioneering anti-colonial writer is still relevant in today’s war in Gaza. The parallels between the Algeria liberation war and the West’s conduct today are many, writes JOE GILL

In light of the brutal onslaught on Gaza, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept a two-state solution, writes JOE GILL

Ramsay Macdonald’s betrayal of 1931 is a warning to Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves not to try and ‘out-orthodox’ the Conservatives on cuts and spending, writes JOE GILL

JOE GILL wallows in superb evenings of jazz, funk and rap, and only regrets that savouring the music displaced his opportunity to heckle

The Labour leader has backed himself and his allies into a corner with their commitment to scapegoating progressive politics — but going to the right won’t work for long if Labour is elected as an alternative to the Tories, argues JOE GILL

The Queen will be mourned by the millions who loved her, but a reckoning must be made with her family’s key role in preserving a corrupt, authoritarian system of monarchies across swathes of the Middle East, writes JOE GILL

The neoconservative former diplomat has upset Washington insiders and spies by breaking an omerta about US involvement in regime change, says JOE GILL

JOE GILL is hooked by an urgent imagined rehearsal of what attempting to overthrow capitalism might look like

Via the anti-lockdown protests, reactionary conspiracy-theory politics backed by big money have broken through to a fervent working-class audience, warns JOE GILL

JOE GILL recommends an incisive account of inexorable US decline

JOE GILL is sickened by the media pandering to Tory myth-making and forced post-Covid jubilation — as if a corrupt and bungled response to the pandemic had not led to thousands of unnecessary deaths

The PM’s failure to take early, decisive action has left Britain exposed to the deadly virus. JOE GILL wonders whether this will lead to a wave of politicisation by those on the front line

At least now, much more than a year ago, socialist Labour activists know who is against them and what they are prepared to do to stop them. JOE GILL believes the Labour right will fail

Years of government lies and misinformation combined with profit-driven internet algorithms and a growing public alienation from ‘official’ politics have fuelled a rise in conspiracy theories, writes JOE GILL

Historical eras are hard to define, but our current moment feels like one of transition — although the destination is not yet clear, argues JOE GILL

The 'winners' so far are some of the losers of WW2 — Germany and Japan — and the industrialised nations of East Asia, including Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan and socialist China. If the West ever recovers, it will be changed forever, writes JOE GILL

Richard Norton-Taylor's book on the secret intelligence services raises worrying questions about their intentions and fitness for purpose, says JOE GILL