Donald Trump’s second victory in the United States is a warning sign to democracies everywhere of the centrality of emotions – and their manipulation – in the new politics of gross inequality and psychic rebellion fuelled by tech-driven alternative realities, writes Hardeep Matharu
Hysteria around Labour’s VAT on private schools and inheritance tax on farms are not the existential threats they’ve been made out to be in the press
Governments around the world need to act now to prevent the worst of what is coming our way
A long awaited plan for ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers is due to be published this winter.
Some of the loudest voices in the US are starting to say the quiet part out loud, reports Chris York
The UK needs a revolution in the way politics and democracy works – starting with proportional representation, writes Neal Lawson