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The Business of War: Who Really Benefits From Britain’s Planned Military Spending Surge?
As the Government gears up for a military spending bonanza, Iain Overton asks whether Britain is really defending its territory, or simply the profits of the global defence industry
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The Fossil Fuel System Is Collapsing – and Taking Civilisation’s Safety Net With It
The Iran war is accelerating an irreversible breakdown of a system on which every hospital, harvest and factory depends – and only a rapid transition to energy superabundance can save us, argues Nafeez Ahmed, Divyesh Desai and Sandrine Dixson-Decleve
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The Oil Lobby Is Using the Iran War to Revive North Sea Drilling but Official Data Shows It Won’t Cut Bills
Fossil fuel funded think tanks, petrostate-linked policy institutes and oil market insiders are all being presented as impartial observers by the media, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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The Lesson Jim Ratcliffe Could Learn From My Immigrant Father-in-Law
The billionaire Manchester United owning tax exile says Britain has been “colonised” by immigrants but he could learn much from the hard working migrants who have made their lives in this country, argues Sangita Myska
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Four Day Weeks, Andy Burnham and the Death of Labour Dreams
On policy and raw politics, Keir Starmer’s leadership is crushing dreams of a better world, argues Mainstream co-founder Neal Lawson
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Rachel Reeves and the Daily Mailification of the BBC
For all the focus on its supposed “left wing bias”, the BBC’s heavy coverage of Conservative allegations of dishonesty against Rachel Reeves shows how its political coverage is still largely led by the right-wing press
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‘Rachel Reeves Buys Herself Some Time With a Calculated Bet on the UK Economy’
The Chancellor’s measured statement was quite different from what the weeks of media hype about it had suggested, argues Simon Nixon
