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Sir Keir Starmer being questioned at Downing Street, September 2024. Photo: Flickr/ Simon Dawson

We always thought Starmer was a stuffed shirt, now we know he’s a bought suit – weekly briefing

Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting. Photo: Keir Starmer / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Don’t trust Labour with our NHS

Bill Burns, CIA, and Richard Moore, UK SIS. Photos: Public Domain

UK and US intelligence agencies advance global rivalry

Stopping the State protest at Jerusalem, September 2024. Photo: Wikimedia/Nizzan Cohen

Genocide continues as Israel is rocked by mass protests – weekly briefing

Tel Aviv protest calling for a hostage deal, 1 September 2024. Photo: Nizzan Cohen / CC BY 4.0

General strike deepens divisions in Israeli society

Chancellor Rachel Reeves at Westminster, July 2024. Photo: Flickr/Lauren Hurley

Squaring up to the new austerians – weekly briefing

Keir Starmer and a black hole. Photos: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 & NOIRLab/AURA/NSF/P. Marenfeld / CC BY 4.0

Labour chooses austerity: the black hole is an illusion

Dominic Alexander

Keir Starmer. Photo: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Starmer’s theme song: things can only get worse – weekly briefing

Kamala Harris, Arizona, August 2024. Photo: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0

Why the ghosts of Palestine haunt Kamala Harris

Nurses striking outside St Thomas’ Hospital in 2022. Photo: ReelNews / CC-BY 3.0

Lessons learned from the ambiguous end of the 2022 strike wave

Remnants of a burned pile of looted shoes from Shoezone three days after rioting in Hull City Centre on 3 August 2024. Photo: Hullian111 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0

The far right and the riots: what is (and isn’t) to blame

Sir Keir Starmer greets President Zelenskyy at Westminster, July 2024. Photo: Flickr/Lauren Hurley

What they don’t tell you about the war in Ukraine – weekly briefing

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