Making a killing: why the US and Britain support Israel’s war machine The good news is that protests in Western capitals do actually jeopardise crucial arms supplies to Israel — but we need to remember exactly why our leaders continue to support their genocidal ‘strategic ally,’ writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Features | Friday 15th Mar 2024 Labour’s public-private plans are just a return to the dreaded PFI era
Features | Friday 08th Mar 2024 Financial Services Review: Labour snuggles deeper into bed with the City
Friday 09th Feb 2024 Silver Birch — a creation of the right-wing press The '80s media fawned over an anti-strike, anti-Scargill supposed 'leader' of dissident miners. Digging in declassified files, SOLOMON HUGHES discovers the police actually thought he lacked support — and brainpower
Friday 02nd Feb 2024 Opinion Uighurs and Palestinians: Britain’s ‘genocide’ hypocrisy Our political class is ready to hound out MPs who even mention Gaza in the same breath as other accepted genocides — yet China’s actions in Xinjiang are ‘a genocide’ despite no mass killings. That doesn’t add up, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 26th Jan 2024 Al Shifa Hospital: a new low in war propaganda Even when Israel was caught using video 'evidence' it had faked itself, the Western press continued to repeat its murderous fabrications, giving a green light to its war on hospitals in Gaza, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 19th Jan 2024 Rachel Reeves regains her ‘trust’ in consultancies Even the right wing of the Labour Party had been critical of the invasion of the huge ‘management consultancies’ until recently – yet, as power beckons, its got over its reservations. Fancy that, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 12th Jan 2024 Subsidy bonanza: the great train robbery continues ‘Our’ train companies — mostly partly owned from abroad — are trousering millions of taxpayer cash, as usual, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 05th Jan 2024 Anti-semitism must be taken seriously Even as Israel ramps up its wilder accusations of anti-Jewish prejudice against those who oppose its war, we need to remember the struggle against racism of all kinds is vital to the left and anti-war movements, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 22nd Dec 2023 From Thornbury to privatisation: march of the agency staff Britain is back to its bad old ways, spending billions on health service stand-in staff — a vicious cycle that lines up the private providers to take over entirely as the NHS drains its funds on temps, explains SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 15th Dec 2023 Heroes and Bob Vylan SOLOMON HUGHES give a full-throated endorsement to punk-tinged, hardcore-splashed, grimey political output of Britain's foremost rap-rock duo
Friday 15th Dec 2023 Housing: how hard is it to keep people, not profit in mind? House building must be ‘attractive’ to people who need a house, not to the for-profit private developers, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Monday 11th Dec 2023 Fake news from Israel In times of war, the press should consider whether the most sensational stories are true before publishing. Of course, it doesn’t — and there’s no penalty when they turn out to be nonsense, laments SOLOMON HUGHES