My Uncle George was frugal with words. His conversations were short and shielded, prioritising conciseness over clarity, never allowing more than the bare minimum of light to shine through. When he ...

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The slide towards authoritarian rule in Britain and the US, and the prospects of a Trump third-term and a Farage government in the UK, has to be resisted. At the heart of this is the degradation of ...

Egypt’s best-known political prisoner, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, was granted a presidential pardon on Monday and has reunited with his family after spending most of the last 12 years in prison. The writer ...

ICE now has the biggest budget of any law enforcement agency in America. “ICE and Customs and Border Protection have long been the most rogue, kind of renegade and certainly pro-Trump police agencies ...

Paul Laverty’s post-release statement shows his legal training and deep humanity. He must have run rings around them in the police station. Not a hint of terrorism, violent intent or antisemitism on ...

The UN has declared famine in Gaza. It is the first officially recognized famine in the history of the Middle East. This is a human-made crime, not a natural tragedy. Israel is deliberately starving ...

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It’s not the done thing to talk about England’s lurch to the far-right, but nobody can ignore the spasm of fascism that is now as much a part of summertime as Wimbledon or the Notting Hill Carnival.

Scotland is the nation that invented everything, except itself. Now we are at an Interregnum, an idea from Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks in which ‘[t]he crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old ...