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 ...

We frequently point to the failings of the media – particularly the tabloid press and the fringes of far-right broadcasting and blogging. But such is the shift to the right that some of the most ...

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.

In the same week when it was announced that Labour councillor Julie MacDougall was defecting to Reform UK saying her values “are truly most aligned to this party than any other”, it was also revealed ...

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 ...

After earlier reporting on the claims by the BBC’s film critic Siobhan Synnot that the Edinburgh Film Festival is “created in London and shipped up to Edinburgh for ten days” and that “90% of the ...

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by AVI SHLAIM In this book Avi Shlaim places Israel’s policy towards the Gaza Strip under an uncompromising lens. He argues that recurrent attacks – ...

As Aaron Bastani puts it: “This just sounds like contempt for Wales when you watch it. The truth is Wales could succeed in or outside the union – depending on the choices its politicians make.” We’ve ...

Amplify Palestine releases Unboundable to mark twenty years since the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions went global; as Gaza’s people continue to endure genocidal siege, bombs, ...