1+ hour, 31+ min ago   (852+ words) 20/03/2025. PM Keir Starmer and Defence Secretary John Healey visit the Permanent Joint Headquarters in Northwood. Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street John Healey resigned as Keir Starmer’s defence secretary on June 11. Despite the now former prime minister’s promise to plunge a…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1252+ words) MPs have returned to the Commons after a seven-week break. What will they be talking about after their holidays? If they were taking the job as seriously as they should there would be only one topic at the top of…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (905+ words) Nato exercise Spring Storm, NATO Channel The scale of the arms industry’s contribution to climate change is often minimised, avoided or ignored. But preparations for war, and war itself, are killing the planet faster than practically any other single factor....

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (621+ words) Prime Minister Andy Burnham appoints John Healey as Chancellor. Picture by Simon Dawson The word ‘chutzpah’, derived from the Yiddish, is defined as ‘supreme self-confidence, nerve, or shameless audacity’. John Healey’s behaviour towards the end of last week was chutzpah…...

6+ day, 26+ min ago   (705+ words) Despite the excitement around Donald Trump’s new sanctions and even the US strikes against the Iranian island of Larak just hours ago, much suggests that Trump is not seeking a dramatic ratcheting up of pressure on Iran. According to reports…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (610+ words) Andy Burnham’s first foreign visit since coming to office sends a disappointing signal about his international, and indeed economic, direction. Britain has a clear choice it can make about the role we play on the world stage. We can continue…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (135+ words) Picture by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street We demand the British government and PM Andy Burnham, who now enjoys a close relationship with the Ukrainian regime and its president Volodymyr Zelensky, calls for Bogdan’s release. The same charge of support…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (275+ words) An urgent priority for the new prime minister should be ending UK complicity with Israel’s war crimes and systematic apartheid. So far, there is little evidence of this happening. The good news is that pressure is building on Burnham. The…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (844+ words) Writing for The National, Findlay Young, convenor of the SNP Ukraine Solidarity Caucus, accused me and the Stop the War Coalition of appeasement of Vladimir Putin. For the past four years, the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign has joined sections of the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (185+ words) The Government must secure an end to Israeli attacks and unrestricted humanitarian access to Gaza. Across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, settlement expansion, settler violence and restrictions on Al-Aqsa Mosque continue to intensify – restrictions the Government must act…...