Opinion

Lindsay Whittle wins the Caerphilly Senedd by-election in a historic victory on 24 October 2025.

Plaid Cymru’s Caerphilly Victory Matters Everywhere

Gareth Leaman

The Caerphilly Senedd by-election win for Plaid Cymru is indicative of dissatisfaction that reaches far beyond the town’s boundaries. We should remember that Reform can still capitalise on this anger elsewhere, argues Gareth Leaman.

Freed Palestinian prisoners released by Israel as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, gesture, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025.

Here’s What Happened When Israel Released 2,000 Palestinian Captives, Including My Uncle

Hassan Herzallah

Last week, Hassan Herzallah was among thousands of Palestinians reunited with their loved ones in the hostage exchange that formed part of the ceasefire deal in Gaza that Israel has since broken. Others emerged from Israeli captivity only to discover their family members were dead. Herzallah recounts his family’s ordeal.

People speak to a protest in front of a banner that says 'Scotland demands rent controls'

Scotland’s New Rent Controls Put Starmer’s Measly Reforms to Shame

Gordon Maloney

In September, the Scottish government passed a law limiting how much landlords can raise rents. Labour’s renters’ rights bill is a joke by comparison, writes Gordon Maloney.

British Pound sterling bank notes and coins. Alberto Pezzali/NurPhoto/Reuters

Employers Who Steal Wages Should Be Made Criminally Liable

Matthew Cole

A shocking investigation has revealed that employers who fail to pay wages simply get away with it. It’s time to make wage theft a criminal matter, argues Matthew Cole.

Palestinian prisoner stares out of a bus window as he and other prisoners leave Ketziot military prison in southern Israel, in June 2005. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

Israel Sent Me to the Same Prison Where It Tortured My Palestinian Brother

Kieran Andrieu

After Israel kidnapped him in international waters with the Global Sumud Flotilla, Kieran Andrieu realised he was being held in the same Negev desert facility where his younger brother, Ahmed, had been repeatedly locked up.

A woman with short blonde hair and glasses looks aslant across the image

Opinion Journalism Is Now Mostly Liberal Hand-Wringing and Racist Dog-Whistles

Juliet Jacques

Comment journalism once seemed a genuinely dynamic, democratic form. Now it’s mostly overpaid Times columnists sugarcoating fascism and Guardian grandees putting themselves on the wrong side of history, writes Juliet Jacques.

A man in a green jacket and white t-shirt holds a banner alongside other activists

Zack Polanski Must Now Transform His Fans Into Activists

Adam Ramsay

The telegenic eco-socialist has triggered an explosion of interest in the Green party, and a parallel growth in membership. Now he needs to translate enthusiasm into activity, writes Adam Ramsay.

Israel’s Illegal Interception of the Gaza Aid Flotilla Is an Affront to Human Decency

Jeremy Corbyn

Israel’s detention of hundreds of peaceful activists - including my constituent, Novara Media’s Kieran Andrieu - is both a violation of their human rights and a further act of cruelty against the people of Gaza. But the movement for Palestine is never going away, writes Jeremy Corbyn.

I’ve Been Kidnapped by Israel in International Waters

Kieran Andrieu

Novara Media journalist Kieran Andrieu has been illegally detained by Israel for trying to deliver baby formula, food and medicine to Gaza.

Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader addressing Glastonbury festival attendees from the Pyramid Stage in June 2017. Reuters/Dylan Martinez

The New Party Fallout Shows That Hero-Worship Gets Us Nowhere

Michael Chessum

The public split between Your Party co-founders Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana shows how building mass movements around leftwing celebrities doesn’t work, argues Michael Chessum.

Israel Is Trying to Smear the Gaza Aid Flotilla As ‘Terrorists’. We Must Not Let It

Yanis Varoufakis

Hundreds of brave doctors, lawyers, journalists and parliamentarians are sailing to Gaza to break Israel's illegal blockade. By smearing them as 'Hamas', Israel is preparing to attack, writes Yanis Varoufakis.

A woman leads a march alongside activists

Politicians Should Step Aside and Let Members Run the New Left Party

Jonas Marvin & Shanice McBean

Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn’s power struggles are squandering a historic opportunity to build a mass party of the left. That’s why we support the democratic challenge to take over its leadership, write Jonas Marvin and Shanice McBean.

The Mainstream Media Mafia Has Greased Britain’s Slide Towards Fascism

Phil McDuff

Any analysis of the political situation in the UK that does not account for the media is so incomplete as to be useless, argues Phil McDuff.

A man with silver hair and glasses, wearing a suit, waves a hand in the air

Arrogant and Inept, Keir Starmer’s Hubris Is Blowing Up in His Face

Joe Guinan

Liberals and lobby journalists jubilated last year when the grownups were finally put back in charge. Now, Starmer’s future and indeed Labour’s seem as certain as an iceberg lettuce, writes Joe Guinan.

Forget Movement-Building – the New Party Should Be the Ukip of the Left

Lewis Bassett

Some have argued that Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn’s new initiative should build its own institutions. Really, it should focus on influencing popular discourse and existing power structures - just like Ukip did, writes Lewis Bassett.

A portrait of Zack Polanski by Magdalena Siwicka

Zack Polanski’s Win Is the Kick up the Arse the Left Needs

James Meadway

The left has four years to stop Nigel Farage from becoming prime minister. Polanski’s Green leadership win is the starting gun on a race we must win, writes James Meadway.

Anti-immigration demonstrators display Union Jack and England flags as they gather outside a hotel in Altrincham, 8 August 2025. Phil Noble/Reuters

Britain’s Elites Care Much More About Migrant Hotels Than the Public Does

Phil McDuff

The race rioters who burned out a car at the end of my street in Middlesbrough last summer were outnumbered the very next day by locals who came out to sweep up the glass, writes Phil McDuff.

Zack Polanski Has Started a Fight in the Green Party, and That’s a Good Thing

Adam Ramsay

The would-be leader’s populist style and socialist proposals have upset a party establishment that has historically avoided conflict. Turns out a battle of ideas was just what the party needed, writes Adam Ramsay.

Plaid Cymru’s Caerphilly Victory Matters Everywhere

Gareth Leaman

Here’s What Happened When Israel Released 2,000 Palestinian Captives, Including My Uncle

Hassan Herzallah

Scotland’s New Rent Controls Put Starmer’s Measly Reforms to Shame

Gordon Maloney

Employers Who Steal Wages Should Be Made Criminally Liable

Matthew Cole

Israel Sent Me to the Same Prison Where It Tortured My Palestinian Brother

Kieran Andrieu

Opinion Journalism Is Now Mostly Liberal Hand-Wringing and Racist Dog-Whistles

Juliet Jacques

Zack Polanski Must Now Transform His Fans Into Activists

Adam Ramsay

Israel’s Illegal Interception of the Gaza Aid Flotilla Is an Affront to Human Decency

Jeremy Corbyn

The Mainstream Media Mafia Has Greased Britain’s Slide Towards Fascism

Phil McDuff

Arrogant and Inept, Keir Starmer’s Hubris Is Blowing Up in His Face

Joe Guinan

Zack Polanski’s Win Is the Kick up the Arse the Left Needs

James Meadway

Britain’s Elites Care Much More About Migrant Hotels Than the Public Does

Phil McDuff

Zack Polanski Has Started a Fight in the Green Party, and That’s a Good Thing

Adam Ramsay

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Opinion

Plaid Cymru’s Caerphilly Victory Matters Everywhere

Gareth Leaman

Here’s What Happened When Israel Released 2,000 Palestinian Captives, Including My Uncle

Hassan Herzallah

Scotland’s New Rent Controls Put Starmer’s Measly Reforms to Shame

Gordon Maloney

Employers Who Steal Wages Should Be Made Criminally Liable

Matthew Cole

Israel Sent Me to the Same Prison Where It Tortured My Palestinian Brother

Kieran Andrieu

Opinion Journalism Is Now Mostly Liberal Hand-Wringing and Racist Dog-Whistles

Juliet Jacques

Zack Polanski Must Now Transform His Fans Into Activists

Adam Ramsay

Israel’s Illegal Interception of the Gaza Aid Flotilla Is an Affront to Human Decency

Jeremy Corbyn

I’ve Been Kidnapped by Israel in International Waters

Kieran Andrieu

The New Party Fallout Shows That Hero-Worship Gets Us Nowhere

Michael Chessum

Israel Is Trying to Smear the Gaza Aid Flotilla As ‘Terrorists’. We Must Not Let It

Yanis Varoufakis

Politicians Should Step Aside and Let Members Run the New Left Party

Jonas Marvin & Shanice McBean

The Mainstream Media Mafia Has Greased Britain’s Slide Towards Fascism

Phil McDuff

Arrogant and Inept, Keir Starmer’s Hubris Is Blowing Up in His Face

Joe Guinan

Forget Movement-Building – the New Party Should Be the Ukip of the Left

Lewis Bassett

Zack Polanski’s Win Is the Kick up the Arse the Left Needs

James Meadway

Britain’s Elites Care Much More About Migrant Hotels Than the Public Does

Phil McDuff

Zack Polanski Has Started a Fight in the Green Party, and That’s a Good Thing

Adam Ramsay

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