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Boris Johnson British gas

The Gas Crisis Is Exposing the Lie in Britain’s Decarbonisation Strategy

Lauren Van Schaik

With fossil fuel dependence impacting both our wallets and our thermostats, more of us may start to see through the Tories’ counterfeit decarbonisation strategy, which has swapped out coal for natural gas, writes Lauren Van Schaik.

Cop26: Climate Justice Visions From the Global South

Connor Woodman

As vaccine apartheid and the UK’s borders stop many from accessing Cop26, five thinkers and organisers from the Global South counter-pose their struggles for climate justice to the vacuous summit in Glasgow.

Will Climate Change Itself Derail Plans to Reduce Emissions?

Nicholas Beuret

First problem: climate change itself is slowing down decarbonisation plans. Second problem: decarbonisation plans risk creating a hell of a lot of emissions. So where do we go from here?

A panda station amid smog in Beijing

Is China the World’s Worst Climate Culprit?

Aaron Bastani

China is easily the world’s leading polluter. But when you take into account the country's size, population, investment in renewables and outsourced emissions things become a lot more complicated, writes Aaron Bastani.

Germany’s SPD Is About to Take Power. Can It Stick to Leftwing Principles?

James Jackson

Germany’s social democratic party just won on a leftwing manifesto. As the party enters coalition talks with the right, will the left be hung out to dry?

Keir Starmer at Labour conference in Brighton.

Who’s More in Touch With Voters, Labour Members or Labour’s Leader?

Ell Folan

Whether it’s energy nationalisation or a higher minimum wage, Keir Starmer consistently rejects policies that his party members support. His supporters say that Labour members are out of touch with the wider electorate – but polls suggest otherwise.

The SNP Won’t Deliver a Radical Independence for Scotland

Jonathon Shafi

While a second Scottish independence referendum seems inevitable, it won’t be a re-run of the first, writes Jonathon Shafi. Thanks largely to the growing dominance of the SNP within the pro-independence movement, the stakes are higher than ever.

The Deindustrial Divide: Why Northern England is a Political Problem

Craig Gent

Whether we like it or not, the ‘red wall’ narrative is likely to determine English politics for the decade to come. But understanding today’s ‘north-south divide’ has more to do with industrial legacies than culture, writes Craig Gent.

Worldmaking in Peterborough: How Battles Over England Are Rooted in Place

Ben Rogaly

Understanding social division and how to overcome it means grappling with the contradictions of place, racialisation and industry, writes Ben Rogaly. Where do we start? Peterborough.

Dave’s Latest Album Demands That Black British Music Be Taken Seriously

Kojo Koram

On his latest album, We're All Alone In This Together, rapper Dave makes a compelling case for why Black British music should be approached with the same intellectual rigour as the great guitar albums of the past.

Britain’s Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer leaves his home in London, Britain May 10, 2021.

Starmer’s Half-Hearted Power-Grab Has Weakened Him, Not That His Allies Care

Solomon Hughes

The Labour leader’s abortive attempt to introduce electoral colleges has left him looking weaker than ever. Yet his supporters are entirely willing to sacrifice Sir Keir and indeed the next election to get the party back onto the Third Way, writes Solomon Hughes.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak holds up the red box outside Number 11 on his first Budget.

Britain Needs to Get Over Its Obsession With Flat Taxes

Ell Folan

From national insurance to council tax, Britain has an unhealthy obsession with flat taxes that hit the poor hardest. It’s time for the British state to be funded fully by progressive taxation, writes Ell Folan.

Prime minister Boris Johnson in a hard hat and red jumpsuit in a factory setting

The Big State Is Back, Baby

Paolo Gerbaudo

In the neoliberal era, bureaucrats were public enemy number one. Now, Boris Johnson is heralding the “activist state”. The left must skewer the right’s faux interventionism or risk irrelevance, writes Paolo Gerbaudo.

Joe Biden walks in front of an American flag that occupies the entire background

Western Elites Aren’t Mourning the Loss of Afghan Life, but of Their Own Power

David Wearing

The west has suffered another humiliating defeat in the bogus “war on terror”, writes David Wearing, and the warmongers aren’t taking it well.

Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer, two Green party co-leadership candidates, standing in front of the Houses of Parliament

Finally, a Green Party Leadership Race Worth Following

Ell Folan

After the sudden resignation of both co-leaders, the Greens have been plunged into their most fractious leadership contest yet. It's going to be a battle - and not just over trans rights.

For David Graeber, Theory and Action Were Inseparable

Thomas Swann

David Graeber lived his political values - and through everyday acts of communism, he argued, many of us do too.

David Graeber Reminded Us of the Political Value of Anthropology

Alpa Shah

David Graeber's love of anthropology was intimately tied to his desire to build an anti-capitalist politics; it makes us think beyond the political limits of our own societies to realise that there are other, better ways of doing things.

Anarchism Shaped David Graeber. Then He Shaped Anarchism

Shane Little

Having first discovered the ideology as a teenager, David Graeber used his experiences as an activist and an anthropologist to develop his own theory of anarchism, one that is rooted in practice and the belief that we can remake the world at any given moment.

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