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Keir Starmer Is Driving Scotland Towards Independence. The Least He Can Do Is Let Us Go

Adam Ramsay

A chunk of Scottish voters have tended to think that Scotland doesn’t need independence, just a Labour government. But with the party now in power, the tide has turned, writes Adam Ramsay.

A woman with blonde bobbed hair smiles as she passes through a crowd

Banning Le Pen From Running Will Let Her Play the Victim

Richard Hames

A spate of legal challenges preventing politicians from standing in elections exposes the crisis of liberal democracy. The left should be cautious about celebrating when reactionaries get taken down by the courts, argues Richard Hames.

Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer

What Disability Benefit Cuts Reveal About Labour’s Grasp of Economics

Phil McDuff

Ministers have looked at the UK economy in 2025 and concluded that disabled people simply have it too good. Can they be serious? Phil McDuff writes.

Buy-to-Let Landlords Are Dodging Tax En Masse

Harriet Williamson

Buy-to-let firms are now the UK’s biggest single type of business, as landlords switch set-up to cut tax payments. Let’s call this what it is: mass tax avoidance by a workshy, parasite class, writes Harriet Williamson.

Keir Starmer

The Real Reason Behind Starmer’s Military Spending Drive

Khem Rogaly

Keir Starmer’s rearmament agenda is not about security - it’s a bid to appease Donald Trump, writes Khem Rogaly.

Carla Denyer (second from left) and Adrian Ramsay (third from left), co-leaders of the Greens. Claudia Greco/Reuters

The Green Party Needs New Leaders – And Fast

Joe Todd

The Greens could be the party to take on Reform. But their leaders are just too nice, argues Joe Todd.

BP CEO Murray Auchincloss

BP’s Climate Backtrack Is an Admission It Has Failed

Nicholas Beuret

BP’s renewables retreat isn’t because net zero is dead. It’s because BP can’t figure out how to become a key player in the next energy economy, writes Nicholas Beuret.

A pro-Palestinian protester with a keffiyeh around their head and a microphone raises their hand in the air while leading a march to the US Embassy in London

How the Pro-Israel Right Used Identity Politics to Crush Palestine Solidarity

Ash Sarkar

In an exclusive extract from her new book, Minority Rule, Ash Sarkar explains how Israel’s advocates weaponised the lived experience of Jewish people to obscure a genocidal war in Gaza.

Scottish Councils Don’t Just Need More Money – They Need Real Power

Adam Ramsay

Scotland is set for the biggest council tax rises in 20 years. But this won’t be enough for local authorities to really transform communities, writes Adam Ramsay.

Jordan Peterson at the 2023 ARC conference. ARC Forum Flikr

We Infiltrated a Tragic Far-Right Afterparty

Luther Blissett

The ARC conference saw dreary, repetitive rightwing talking points, but the real action happened at the unofficial afterparty: a boozy gathering of racists, trolls and fantasists.

A surfer adorns herself with "dirty" sanitary pads and toilet paper at a Surgers Against Sewage protest. Krisztian Elek / SOPA Images via Reuters Connect

Should We Stop Paying Our Water Bills?

Richard Hames

Privatised water symbolises everything wrong with Britain. Asking nicely hasn't worked, argues Richard Hames - we need a protest movement that can force change.

Two men in suits stand next to one another looking stern

No Other Land Has Exposed the Film Industry’s Cowardice

Juliet Jacques

Despite being nominated for the best documentary Oscar, the Israeli-Palestinian co-production has struggled to find a US distributor. This sorry situation is a reflection of the spinelessness of an industry that loves to trumpet its liberal values, writes Juliet Jacques.

This Psychologist Is Challenging the Way We See Mental Illness

Harriet Williamson

Do psychiatric diagnoses obscure the impossible circumstances many of us find ourselves in? Harriet Williamson spoke to Dr Lucy Johnstone about why we can’t separate psychological suffering from its context.

Tom Drummond. Photo: Sutton Conservatives

Tory Councillor Accused of Smearing Teenager As Antisemite for Palestine Petition

Simon Childs

When Tommy Oliver started a BDS petition, he had no idea it would be debated on Holocaust Memorial Day. That didn't stop the leader of the Sutton Conservatives calling the petition antisemitic and running to the Times.

Trump’s Gaza Resettlement Plans Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere

Ash Sarkar

From Biden’s "humanitarian corridor” to Jared Kushner’s dreams of Miamifying Gaza, Trump’s ethnic cleansing programme is not brand-new territory for the US, writes Ash Sarkar.

Workers hold Unite trade union flags as they protest following Stellantis' announcement of its plan to shut its Vauxhall van factory in Luton, 17 December 2024. REUTERS/Chris Radburn

Luton’s Auto Workers Are Being Abandoned to the Far Right

Ben Norman & Lewis Norton

In November Vauxhall announced the closure of its van plant in Luton, home of Tommy Robinson and Andrew Tate. As the government dithers, the far right is waiting in the wings, write Unite officers Lewis Norton and Ben Norman.

Heathrow’s Third Runway Would Make Regional Inequality Even Worse

Adam Ramsay

Forget the climate change impacts. Expanding Heathrow is a bad idea, even on the chancellor’s own terms: the economy. Adam Ramsay explains.

A man in a suit with blonde hair speaks with microphones underneath him held by reporters

Trump Has Found a Way to Blame Minorities for the Washington DC Plane Crash

Ash Sarkar

The embers were still burning at the crash that killed 67 people on Wednesday when the president took to the podium to name the culprit: affirmative action.

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