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MIKE COWLEY welcomes half a century of remarkable work, that begins before the Greens and invites a connection to — and not a division from — nature
True satire can’t be silenced
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ANDREW MURRAY recommends a volume of essays that nail the visionless, racist and neoliberal character of policy under Starmer’s Labour Party
JONATHAN TAYLOR appreciates how, for a black British musician, to walk onstage can be a rebellious act
Since 2023, Strike Map has evolved from digital mapping at a national level to organising ‘mega pickets’ — we believe that mass solidarity with localised disputes prepares the ground for future national action, writes HENRY FOWLER
Like dictators of the past, Trump is seeking an enforcement agency answering only to him, asserts CJ ATKINS
From tens of thousands left abandoned to a militarised ‘looting’ crackdown, Hurricane Katrina laid bare racial inequities and government neglect, writes NATALIA MARQUES
The maxim “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,” often erroneously attributed as a direct quotation by Voltaire, has been much in usage in the last few days.
The atrocity that saw the murder of eight journalists and cartoonists, a visitor, a caretaker and two police officers at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo this week — and the hunt for the killers which at time of writing appeared to be approaching a bloody denouement yesterday — has rightly dominated the global news agenda.
It is shocking in this day and age that journalists and satirists should be gunned down merely for the act of poking fun at a concept, albeit one dear to many millions around the world.
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