Gaza’s collective sumud has proven more powerful than one of the world’s best-equipped militaries, but the change in international attitudes isn’t happening fast enough to save a starving population from Western-backed genocide, argues RAMZY BAROUD
Liz Truss’s tenure beckons in a period of darkness
The new administration could prove to be the most reactionary since Thatcher, especially if it decides the election is already lost and tries and do as much damage in the name of the market as possible on the way out, warns ANDREW MURRAY
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
JOHN PERRY, BECCA RENK and ROGER D HARRIS offer a corrective to the idea that Latin America still lags far behind the West on women’s rights by looking at the region’s significant feminist gains now stretching back decades
Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
SO, the Liz Truss era dawns. Where is the Breughel or even the Bosch who could do justice to the scene?
Ascending to the applause of a coterie of gnarled but wealthy reactionaries, she presides over the blasted landscape of a broken country — citizens huddling together for the only affordable warmth, trains immobilised en route to excrement-covered beaches, leaking pipes, empty shop shelves and overwhelmed hospitals.
The guns of war would be thundering in the distance, in honour of the new warrior queen, who would be festooned Margaret Thatcher-style in her battle helmet.
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