The announcement of a ‘BritCard’ – a digital ID scheme – is a sign of desperation from Keir Starmer’s beleaguered government, ...

British politics is undergoing a huge upheaval, as parties of the Left struggle to be born and the mainstream two-party ...

This is from the excellent Democracy for Sale, which I recommend as one of the fastest-growing monitors of corruption in politics. Follow them here. In this episode, Peter Geoghegan speaks to ...

As people starve the elites gorge themselves at banquet. The grotesque Trump pantomime rolled into town and our PM rolled ...

Hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” have disappeared. Democracy Now! speaks with Shirsho Dasgupta, a ...

Family Celebrates Political Prisoner’s Release in Egypt Egypt’s best-known political prisoner, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, was granted a presidential pardon on ...

On the day that an independent inquiry by the United Nations concluded that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit ...

Launching a Crowdfunder is a venture into unknown territory, a sort of leap in the dark. What target should one set? Is it ...

A Cultural History, Richard McLauchlan, Hurst and Company, £20. Review by Vivien Williams Richard McLauchlan’s The Bagpipes: ...