What Will It Take to Stop Israel?
Daniel Levy
As Israel widens its target from Gaza and regional conflict escalates, Daniel Levy considers what might influence Israel to get off this genocidal, self-destructive path.
How the Media Became a Weapon in the Gaza Genocide
Steven Methven
Since 7 October, media outlets have made themselves a strategic asset for both Israel’s genocidal regime and western powers seeking to uphold the status quo in the Middle East. Steven Methven explains.
How the Guardian Lined Up Behind Starmer
Rivkah Brown
At the Guardian’s election endorsement meeting, a senior columnist argued that anything less than full-blown Starmerism risked losing credibility with the incoming government, while the lobby closed ranks behind Labour in a seemingly pre-agreed position. Rivkah Brown reports.
What Can the Left Learn From Nigel Farage?
Joe Todd
Nigel Farage has reshaped British politics more than any politician since Margaret Thatcher. In a moment of new possibilities for the electoral left, the question is: how?
Who Is ‘Starmtrooper’ Josh Simons?
Rivkah Brown
Josh Simons, the 30-year-old director of Starmermite 'Super Pac' Labour Together, has just been handed a safe seat. A former Corbyn staffer, Simons claims he left the party over antisemitism. New evidence suggests otherwise. Rivkah Brown asks: what is he really about?
An Oil Baron Wants to Build Over a Local Park for His ‘Green’ Energy Project
Rivkah Brown
Sir Ian Wood plans to “greenwash” his oil billions with a new “energy transition zone”. The plan involves concreting over a third of the local park. Rivkah Brown reports.
How Do We Reclaim the Northern Soul?
Craig Gent
Northern England was deliberately torn apart within living memory. Putting it back together will demand a total overhaul of the British constitution, writes our North of England Editor Craig Gent.
How the Guardian’s Editor-in-Chief Caved to Pro-Israel Pressure
Rivkah Brown
Having started her career as an unflinchingly pro-Palestine author-activist, Guardian editor Katharine Viner has since risen to one of the most powerful positions in media. The ascent has changed her, colleagues say. Rivkah Brown reports.
The Chief Rabbi Has Always Been a Servant of Empire
Joseph Finlay
Ephraim Mirvis’s comments about Israel have shocked many who think of the chief rabbi as an apolitical office. That’s never been the case, writes Joseph Finlay.
Palestinian Satirical Cinema Has the Last Laugh
Juliet Jacques
The works of Elia Suleiman and David Osit capture the numbness produced by decades of occupation and in so doing offer an antidote to it, writes Juliet Jacques.
Aged 82, Patricio Guzmán Is Still Making Revolutionary Cinema
Juliet Jacques
The exiled Chilean documentary-maker has been capturing successive waves of revolution and rebellion in his home country for over four decades, writes Juliet Jacques – and contributing to them through art.
How Centrist ‘Frenemies’ Podcasts Turned Politics Into a Parlour Game
Juliet Jacques
From Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart to Ed Balls and George Osborne, political 'frenemies' are having a moment. It’s all part of a centrist attempt to turn politics into a dinner table argument rather than a matter of life and death, writes Juliet Jacques.
The Weird Story of the Climate Hoaxers Who Planted Fake ‘Top Secret’ Government Documents Around London
Ash Sarkar
Novara Media tracked down the middle-aged advertising creative behind an elaborate hoax to trick journalists into reporting on fake documents which suggested Rishi Sunak's national security advisor was sounding the alarm on climate change.
The Four Neat Tricks Corporations Used to Take Over the World
Claire Provost & Matt Kennard
As the old empires have crumbled, corporations have staged a silent coup against democracy - reaching every corner of the globe.
Effective Altruism Is Infiltrating UK Politics and It’s Time We Woke Up
Matteo Tiratelli
Founded in Oxford in the early 2010s, the movement has since earned a fanbase of American billionaires who are now pumping money into British politics, Labour in particular, writes Matteo Tiratelli.
How to Make a Home in a Housing Crisis
Sophie K Rosa
It can be hard for alternative ways of living to endure when they defy the brutal, capitalist logic of private property, writes Sophie K Rosa in her new book Radical Intimacy. But everywhere - and even as conditions worsen - people are homemaking out of the rubble.
Mental Healthcare Often Isn’t Care at All
Micha Frazer-Carroll
Carceral approaches to mental healthcare are on the rise in Britain. This should worry us all, argues Micha Frazer-Carroll.
‘Levelling Up’ is Encouraging Gulf States to Buy Northern Football Clubs
Ali Reda & Philip Proudfoot
The Tories have welcomed oil sheikdoms buying up football clubs in England’s cash-strapped post-industrial north as part of their ‘levelling up’ agenda. Philip Proudfoot and Ali Reda explain.