Young people are being exhorted to keep chasing the elusive prize of employment, even as our work-centred world is diminishing

A political ideology rooted in fear is remaking the world in its own image and dragging us with it

Our predominantly right-wing media constructs political reality. We must reject this destructive lens that paralyses effective governance

Winning back Reform voters starts with introspection - progressives must face their own role in Britain’s divide

As our metal bus hurtles through emptiness, one of us is white knuckled & wide-eyed, wrestling with terror, perplexity &...

From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain

We are watching a US inflexion point, where citizen action is confronting state violence and hardening authoritarianism. Where will it...

Britain is sliding backwards into open racism, fuelled by political silence and immigration narratives. Can we reverse this tragic shift?

Trump’s designs on Greenland mark a turning point when we must finally accept the death of respect for international sovereignty...

A sloppy edit turns Trump into a crusader against bias, stepping in to protect us from a broadcasting corporation already...

The centre is giving way. Britain’s new fight could be a radical populist duel: Farage’s rage machine vs Polanski’s social...

What’s behind the Trump administration’s transatlantic provocations on UK free speech and who does the dark agenda really belong to?

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its...

Trump has pushed leadership and political reaction down a rabbit hole into a bewildering, menacing ‘wonderland’

Podcast interview with Professor Danny Dorling on the world’s true crises and how attitudes are finally synchronising around positive change

BBC right-wing bias is exceptionally dangerous because it is subtle, opaque and covert

To arm ourselves against Reform’s rise to power, we need first to recognise the most vulnerable parts of our current...

We need to challenge the political right-wing tactic of re-defining moral truths as ‘Leftie ranting’.

We caught up with leading progressive author, journalist, and commentator Grace Blakeley to talk politics, economics, and a bit of...

How did a cluster of toxic, binary attitudes get from the heads of small boys and Silicon Valley into the...

We must get a grip on Trump’s response to the Washington aircraft tragedy. But do our UK commentators help?

As Trump begins a new tyrannical presidency, the ugly whirligig of opportunism, appeasement and normalisation begins. But what happens next?

The second of two articles proposing that, to resist the far right, our plans for  UK proportional representation urgently need...

Everyone deserves a fair vote but might electoral reform lead us into the arms of the far right?

The recent riots have been an ugly carnival of hatred with troubling causes. But they have also highlighted powers that...

After victory as a result of tactical voting, new Oxfordshire MPs should waste no time in pressing for electoral reform.

The mantra ‘they are all the same’ and a growing mood of political distrust and apathy leaves the door open...

As the prospect of the local elections and a general election approaches we list some highlights from the Conservative government’s...

This article on the Hester scandal was written in support of Diane Abbott, the first Black UK MP, and for...

Our PM, in his political death throes, is like a crazed hostage-taker clinging on to his captive in the hope...