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Rachel Reeves announced an increase in the defence budget by £2.2 billion in 2025-26 during her Spring Statement. Treasury. Picture by Kirsty O’Connor / Treasury

Spring statement: Let them eat bullets

Dominic Alexander

Sir Keir Starmer addresses armed forces at Northwood, March 2025. Photo: Flickr/Simon Dawson

Something rotten in the state of Starmer’s Britain – weekly briefing

Activists from Disabled People Against Cuts protest in 2016. Photo: Roger Blackwell / Flickr / BY CC 2.0

Mental health, disability and capitalism

European Leaders Summit, 2 March. Photo: Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Whither Europe?

Sir Keir Starmer at Westminster, March 2025. Photo: Flickr/Simon Dawson

Keir Starmer: a man who always punches down – weekly briefing

Prime Minister Keir Starmer visit to Cyprus. Photo: No 10 / Flickr / CC BY 2.0

The Arms Industry is just going to make us poorer

Mark Carney at Bank of England / Flickr / CC BY-ND 2.0

Mark Carney takes charge in Canada

PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY DEMO. PHOTO: JIM AINDOW

Smash Austerity 2.0: Take the fight to the streets

ELON MUSK WITH A CHAINSAN AND JAVIER MILEI. PHOTO: GAGE SKIDMORE / CC BY-SA 2.0

Working from home: don’t let the bosses claw this one back

Sir Keir Starmer in Estonia, December 2023. Photo: Flickr/Keir Starmer MP

Spend, spend, spend: as long as it’s on the military – weekly briefing

Women March Against Nixon, Miami 1972. Photo: Liberation News Service/ CC BY-NC 2.0

Women’s liberation and the fight for socialism are inseparable

Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump at the White House, February 2025. Photo: Wikimedia/The White House

If this is what happens in the Oval Office, think what will happen on the battlefield – weekly briefing

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