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Retaliation? Putin ‘Closely Monitors’ Criminal Strikes on Civilians in Kherson
Following the UN and Human Rights Watch identifying Russian drone attacks in Kherson as war crimes and crimes against humanity—the Russian military launched a massive combined assault on the city’s central district
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Jordan Official Threatens to ‘Mobilise the Army’ If Israel Expels Palestinians
The fragile 30 year peace between Jordan and Israel could soon be brought to an end by the actions of Netanyahu’s Government, reports Rana Sabbagh
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‘A Warning From Europe on Why Keir Starmer’s ‘Blue Labour’ Strategy Is Such a Dangerous Dead End’
Attempts by centre left parties to mimic the right on immigration almost always ends up strengthening the very far right parties they hope to defeat, reports Olly Haynes
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‘The Gaza Genocide and the Double Standards of the UK Government’s Commitment to International Law’
Keir Starmer’s commitment to upholding international human rights law doesn’t appear to extend to the Israeli Government, argues Martin Shaw
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Wales Offered Stark Choice Between ‘Reform-Led Government or Plaid Cymru’ – as Labour’s 26-year Rule Starts to Crumble
Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth says Nigel Farage’s party could ‘undo Wales’s fledgling democracy’ as polling shows dramatic shift away from Labour
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‘BP’s Cynical Greenwashing Sponsorship Tactics Over British Cultural Institutions Has Now Been Exposed’
These internal memos reveal how fossil fuel companies use cultural sponsorship as a means of cultural and political control, argues Juliette Daigre
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Sellafield Nuclear Waste Cleanup Is 13 Years Behind Schedule and £20 Billion Over Budget
A damning new parliamentary report warns that “the site is becoming increasingly unsafe” due to the delays
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Police to Get Powers to Ban Masks at Protests as Starmer’s Government Accused of ‘Copy and Pasting’ Conservative Plans
Human rights groups fear those wearing masks for health or religious reasons, and dissidents seeking to protect themselves from hostile foreign states, will be swept into the criminal justice system
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‘My Partner Turned Out to Be an Undercover Cop – Now I’m Exposing the Truth’
The activist who helped expose Britain’s ‘spy cop’ scandal discusses her new book on state-sanctioned betrayal, and why she thinks politicised policing still continues today
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Reform-Led Kent Council Cancels Swathes of Meetings Amid Claims They ‘Don’t Know What They’re Doing’
Nigel Farage’s party accused of running a “decision-free” administration, after being forced to scrap a third of its upcoming scheduled meetings
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How Ukraine Used Cheap Drones and a Lot of Ingenuity to Strike a Major Blow Against Russia
“I spent most of the early hours of Saturday in my hallway feeling the walls shake as the ballistic missiles exploded”, Chris York reports from Kyiv
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‘They Don’t Make Them Like This Any More’
In an era of Donald Trump’s naked self-service, Alexandra Hall Hall pays tribute to the passing of a true American public servant, Richard L Armitage
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Whistleblower Alleges Systemic Failures in UK-Approved US Biofuel Sustainability Certification
Ex-auditor claims compliance has been ‘eroded into a rubber-stamping process’
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Nigel Farage’s ‘£7 Billion DEI Savings’ Don’t Actually Exist
The media is widely reporting Reform UK’s claims they could save billions by cutting equality schemes. The real figure appears to be around 250 times smaller, reports Josiah Mortimer
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‘How the Media is Cashing in on the Rise of Nigel Farage’
News organisations are failing the country at the moment when responsible independent journalism is most needed, argues Mathilda Mallinson
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UN Confirms Russian Drone Attacks on Kherson are Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes
Zarina Zabrisky, who first exposed the “human safari” in Kherson for Byline Times in July 2024, reports on the UN’s historic confirmation that Russia deliberately targeted civilians in a campaign of terror.
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Keir Starmer Will Trigger Voter Backlash if He Breaks Warm Homes Pledge, Polling Suggests
Over half of Labour voters say that mooted plans to cut funding for home insulation would hit their trust in the party
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‘Seven Reasons the Left Keeps on Losing’
Progressives need to learn these lessons from the national populists in order to defeat them, argues Neal Lawson
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Israel’s ‘Grotesque’ Detention of Palestinian Bodies Is Intended to Silence and ‘Traumatise Families’
Since the October 7 attacks, the number of Palestinian bodies held by Israeli state incommunicado has soared
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How Russia’s Fake Spirituality Became a Key Weapon in the Kremlin’s Disinformation Toolbox
Under Putin, Christianity has been turned into a political tool to spread false narratives about the war in Ukraine
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Gaza Tribunal Gathers in Sarajevo in Attempt to Hold Israel to Account Over ‘Genocide and War Crimes’
One Gaza doctor told the Tribunal that he witnessed “mass casualty events” multiple times a day.
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Matt Hancock and Three Conservative Peers Referred 60 Suppliers Onto the PPE COVID VIP Lane
Officials have told the COVID Inquiry that not all VIP suppliers have been ‘recorded’ and the true scale of its operation remains unknown
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Government Urged to Adopt Automatic Voter Registration to Fix ‘Woefully Inefficient and Outdated System’
Campaigners believe ‘millions more could be enfranchised with no additional burden on individuals or extra cost’
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Failing Celebrity-Run Care Home for Girls Permanently Shut to Keep Children Safe
Court upholds Ofsted’s decision to close AP Care Homes with judge scathing about owner Ampika Pickston’s professional conduct exposed during an 18-month Byline Times investigation into the crisis-hit facility
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How Our Politicians Created an ‘Island of Strangers’ So They Don’t Have to Make Our Lives Any Better
By presenting tougher immigration as a solution to people’s discontent, Keir Starmer and others sidestep the real reasons why people feel estranged in their lives – it’s a cynical and simplistic political ruse that keeps everyone alienated, writes Hardeep Matharu
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‘George Floyd Murder Gave Us Hope Things Would Change – But They’ve Changed for the Worse’
Five years on from the death that shocked the world, Shabna Begum explains how political denial and repressive legislation has made things worse for people of colour in the UK
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‘UK Energy Is on Trial – But You Probably Didn’t Even Know’
Brits urged to listen to the plight of indigenous people, whose environments have been destroyed by fossil fuel companies, as ‘one day it will be you’
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Government Accused of ‘Facilitating Genocide’ in Gaza Over Shipment of Fighter Jet Parts to Israel
The Government were taken to court in a bid to block the supply of parts campaigners believe may be used to commit war crimes in Gaza
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‘The Case for Climate Popularism in the Green Party’
The future of UK politics is a fight between the Greens and Reform and its clear which Green candidates are the best placed to lead that battle, argues Rupert Read
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‘The Draconian Anti-Protest Laws That Are the Real Threat to Free Speech in the UK’
A new report calls on the Government to ‘look again’ at repealing laws passed under the last Conservative Government
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After Nearly 600 Days the End of the Israel-Gaza War Looks as Far off as Ever
As the world continues to wring its hands, the suffering of the people at the heart of this conflict only continues to grow, writes Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘Google’s Illegal Monopoly and How US Court Decision Comes at a Critical Time for UK and EU Policymakers’
A landmark antitrust decision against Google in the US will have profound iImplications for the digital economy in the UK and beyond, writes Stephen Kinsella and Tim Cowen
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How Wales Became the Target of a Right Wing Culture War
Rachel Morris on the politicians and media organisations now cynically trying to exploit Wales for their own political gain
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Family Justice in Crisis: Thousands of Children Waiting Years for Court Decisions
A National Audit Office report reveals nearly 50,000 unresolved family court cases in England, with some children waiting more than two years due to chronic delays, rising costs and fragmented oversight
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‘Keir Starmer’s EU Deal Is Far Better Than the Media Is Telling You’
Much more needs to be done to repair the damage of Brexit, but this is a welcome step in the right direction, argues the Director of the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations
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‘I Was Targeted by a Hostile Crypto Spambot Swarm That Revealed How X’s Algorithm Has Been Truly Broken’
The automated block attack tricks the algorithm into thinking your account should be suppressed, reports Iain Overton
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‘How Trump Fumbled the Ukraine Peace Talks in Istanbul and Emboldened Putin — Yet Again’
The Kremlin is now so emboldened by the Trump administration’s position that it’s as if three years of Ukrainian resistance, backed by the West, never even happened, writes Chris York from Kyiv
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Keir Starmer’s EU Reset Deal Is the First Crack in the Brexit Wall Holding Britain Back
This agreement marks the beginning of the end of the suffocating Brexit consensus that has gripped British politics for a decade, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘MPs Need to Listen to the Scientists, Not the Oligarchs’ — Scientists Sound the Climate Alarm at Westminster
Chris Packham was joined by more than 150 scientists in a demonstration urging Westminster to start listening to the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change
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‘Why the Critics of University Expansion May Have Had a Point’
Opening up higher education to half the country hasn’t been quite the progressive boon we were promised, argues Neal Lawson
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Why the Home Office’s ‘AI Asylum Success Story’ Was Anything But
The Home Office briefed the media that their AI tool would save officials 44 years of working time. What they didn’t mention was all the mistakes that it made
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‘In a World of Influencers, We Have Waved Goodbye to the Theatre Critic’
Great theatre requires that a conversation should begin about it after the curtain comes down, writes Tim Walker
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‘Keir Starmer’s Painful Immigration Speech Is a Direct Affront to the Diagnosis He Was Voted in On’
The PM’s white paper was not the ‘evidence-led’ policymaking he promised, rather it was ‘cheap, short-termist, headline politics’, writes Mathilda Mallinson
