Rushed through Parliament at a moment’s notice, new legislation aims to stem the free flow of information from places like the Middle East.

Andy Burnham’s plans for economic reform will undoubtedly face resistance from entrenched interests. The politician must act defiantly, and rebuild relations with the constituencies Starmer ostracised.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence imagined a world where corporations sell artificial love to a society starved of human connection. Twenty-five years later, Silicon Valley is trying to build it.

Over the past decade, populist projects have run up against civic decline, which has hollowed out our politics and eroded our society. Now parts of the right are trying to rebuild public life. Will they succeed?

The government must take practical steps to protect workers from the effects of a warming world.

Labour’s vote share fell to just 17 percent in the May local elections. How can the party recover?

As pundits rush to portray Keir Starmer as a ‘decent man’ overwhelmed by events, they overlook the defining feature of his political career: a willingness to deceive and betray in pursuit of power.

Andy Burnham beat Reform by promising working-class voters a break with decades of decline. He must now turn that promise into a transformative programme for government or risk repeating Keir Starmer’s failures.

Keir Starmer’s Labour has prioritised developers, forgetting ordinary people. If elected in Makerfield, Andy Burnham promises to pursue community-centred policies.

Marjane Satrapi, author of the acclaimed graphic novel Persepolis, will be remembered for transforming international perceptions of Iran.

In normalising the misogyny of their Makerfield candidate, Reform is perpetuating a crude caricature of working-class life — which bears no resemblance to its reality.

The Court of Appeal’s ruling on Palestine Action is not only a new low for civil liberties; it marks a further concentration of power in the hands of the government.

Andy Burnham has promised a decisive break with Britain’s failed economic status quo. That promise will ring hollow if he remains bound by the fiscal rules that helped create it.

Today’s Court of Appeal ruling is one of the most extreme attacks on free speech in modern British history, writes Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori.

With France’s National Rally leading in the polls, Danièle Obono argues that only a coalition rooted in both class politics and anti-racism can defeat the far right.

As racist violence spreads across the UK, politicians are using the crisis not to defend minority communities but to attack the equalities protections designed to keep them safe.

The resignations of John Healey and Al Carns are a cynical attempt to make higher military spending the defining priority of Britain’s next government — whatever the cost to welfare, public services and living standards.

Anxieties about our ageing society are common on both the right and left, from fears of ‘civilisational replacement’ to calls for population control. Yet only politics can decide who benefits from this long-term trend.

Leftists have long worried that psychoanalysis is reconciling people to conditions that they might instead resist. But what if we seized psychoanalytic knowledge from the institutions that have historically shaped them?

A new poetry collection explores the interior life of a factory worker across one night shift in contemporary Northern Ireland.

A new poll confirms that Labour’s stance on the Gaza genocide is driving a decline in support. To win back voters, the party must defend the Palestinian people.

In County Waterford, sheep farmers face eviction as the Duke of Devonshire’s estate imposes rent hikes of up to 900%  — a stark reminder that British imperialism still shapes rural Ireland.

A new timely exhibition remembers the anti-fascist Artists’ International Association, exploring the role of culture in counteracting oppression.

The far right seized on the murder of Henry Nowak to bring riot and disorder to the streets of Southampton. The violence exposed not only the shameless cynicism of its leaders, but also the neglect and frustration on which they thrive.

The sport long associated with empire and elite privilege has a surprising, often neglected history of radicalism — which its fans must recuperate today.

The prolific British author and activist, who died last week aged 92, blazed a new path between fiction and the front line of radical politics.

Reactionary forces have deepened neoliberalism’s authorian trends and eroded democracy across the globe. Understanding the nature of their project is necessary to defeat it.

The decision to ban Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur from the UK marks further escalation in the clampdown on critics of Israel.

Cuba has long stood with peoples fighting for dignity and self-determination across the globe. As Washington threatens the island with military intervention, it’s time to return that solidarity in kind.

In many parts of the world, the disastrous ‘War on Drugs’ is winding down. But legalisation brings its own problems, with the rise of the drug commodity driving corporate concentration and deepening inequality.