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.
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.
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’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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How the Establishment Laundered Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Reputation
Olly Haynes
The death of French fascist leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was accompanied by cloying tributes from fascists, conservatives and liberals alike, writes Olly Haynes – quite a send-off for a man once described as the ‘devil’ of French politics.
The Scandal-Hit US Health Insurance Company Deeply Embedded in the NHS
John Puntis
US health companies which have used AI to deny giving patients care are providing NHS services. The government must stand up to them, argues John Puntis.