Honestly held opinions and provocative argument based on current events or our recent reports.
In his latest dispatch from Kyiv, Chris York details how Trump’s ‘Art of the Deal’ just isn’t working
Far from bringing “clarity”, this verdict will only create confusion, while putting trans people at risk, argues Helen Belcher
There’s a reason news outlets never focus on the many women seeking refuge in the UK, argue Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
The United States is rapidly descending into authoritarianism under the Trump administration, argues Matt Gallagher
The political strategy being pursued by Keir Starmer and his advisers means that whichever party comes first in 2029, Nigel Farage wins, argues Neal Lawson
Alexandra Hall Hall exposes Trump’s increasing attacks on free speech and his weaponising the judicial system against former officials who have been critical
The ‘sheer hypocrisy’ of the UK’s right-wing media in celebrating Trump’s ‘free speech ultimatum’
Julian Petley explains why the University of Sussex ‘freedom of expression’ case is so concerning
The ‘many similarities’ between the Trump administration and Putin’s autocratic regime
Five things you probably didn’t know about the crime better known as ‘revenge porn’
A decades-long trend of outsourcing democratic decisions to unaccountable institutions like the OBR is leading Britain towards ruin, argues Neal Lawson
The only deal the US President and his oligarch beneficiaries are interested in is one that would allow them to feast on our public services and consumer rights, argues Nick Dearden
Friends and opponents of the far-right French politician need to be honest about what her barring from the next Presidential election is really about, argues Olly Haynes
The Labour Government has finally been true to its word on a ‘foreign agents registration’ scheme, six years on from Byline Times campaigning for it
How British voters could hold the cards when it comes to resisting President Trump’s global trade war
Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar look at the nationalist populist drift of Labour’s anti-progressive tendency
The UK Government’s attempts to bridge the divide between Europe and the White House are rapidly running out of road, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
The Chancellor could have turned this crisis into an opportunity for a radical shakeup of Britain’s relationship with Europe and the world, but instead reverted to economic orthodoxy, argues Simon Nixon
There is nothing “responsible” about forcing hundreds of thousands of people into poverty, while putting even more strain on those public servants who will have to pick up the pieces, argues Adam Bienkov
The uncomfortable truth about Starmer and Reeves’s economic project is it is grim for living standards, public services and recipients of welfare, and should be opposed by all, argues his former senior adviser Simon Fletcher
Unless the Labour party reconnects with its founding economic mission, they will merely lay the ground for a Nigel Farage Government, argues Neal Lawson
If we are to build a broad consensus in Europe against Trump, we need to bring Palestine into equal focus with Ukraine, argues Martin Shaw
The media is often more interested in what led to mothers being jailed than in the safety of the babies they’re forced to have behind bars, argues Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
‘Pointing out the distortions, inaccuracies and outright lies is so easy that it’s almost a bore,’ argues Russell Warfield
Former Obama and Clinton staffer Tom Malinowski tells Alexandra Hall Hall why the Democrats’ reluctance to push back against the Trump administration is only making things worse
The Government has accepted a skewed report authored by people with ‘no skin in the game’, argues Helen Belcher
The return of Donald Trump to the White House has exposed the need for major reform of the US political and constitutional system
Defending Ukraine without the US will be complex, costly and politically challenging – but there is simply no alternative, argues Jacob Öberg
Keir Starmer must change course from this performative cruelty towards the sick and disabled, argues Neal Lawson
The most sinister instances of censorship and repression are happening in America right here, right now
If liberal centrists on both sides of the Atlantic simply keep waiting for politics to return to “normal” they risk a very rude awakening, argues Neal Lawson
Universities have turned the complaints process into a ‘warning not to challenge the behaviour of men and the institutions that protect them’, reports Mathilda Mallinson
Former EU Trade Negotiator John Clarke on how to counter the method behind the madness of current US trade policy
The PM’s pronouncement that Britain need not choose between the US and Europe is ‘downright reckless’ and an ‘exercise in dangerous delusion’, argues Clive Lewis
For all its chaos in operation, Trump’s regime has a strategic rationale and must be fought strategically, argues Jon Bloomfield
These are the real reasons birthrates are falling, argue Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
With Starmer thrust into a damage limitation exercise by the Ukraine crisis, Chris Painter reflects on the fluctuating relations between British Prime Ministers and American Presidents.
The International Development Secretary’s departure was overshadowed by world events this week, but it risks having a much longer lasting impact on the Government’s fortunes, argues Neal Lawson
Keir Starmer’s attempts to be an “honest broker” with Donald Trump are doomed to failure, argues Adam Bienkov
The UK must accept that its economic and political interests now lean heavily towards Europe, argues Richard Barfield
Mathilda Mallinson was one of two pro-immigration cast members on the controversial Channel 4 show. She explains what the show taught her
With the increasingly bizarre compliance of the US President to the Russian President, Zarina Zabrisky wonders if the KGB/FSB tradition of assassination and mafia-style intimidation may be key