Robert Reiner

How the British let loose between the wars

A slur was shouted at the Baftas – but what followed was more dispiriting

Why in the world is Melania Trump leading a UN security council meeting? | Arwa Mahdawi The first lady is a Trump and therefore automatically qualified to do anything her heart desires

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All in the family. Godfather style

Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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Square Mile strikes back: how the City of London is fighting disinformation about crime Panic about antisocial behaviour and theft has broken through from social media to boardrooms and diplomatic circles

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Tired of London tired of life. The slandering of London is so contradictory to experience or statistics. Motivated by business rivalry or jealous projection by right wing elites elsewhere

Labour must cease taking progressive voters for granted, says Sadiq Khan London mayor criticises PM for calling Greens ‘extreme’ after Gorton and Denton loss, saying it is a ‘flawed strategy’

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Khan speaks as a Labour leader should. But we need him in London

‘Middle East in flames’: what the papers say about the war on Iran Strikes on Iran by the US and Israel, as well as Donald Trump’s announcement that the supreme leader Ali Khamenei had been killed lead the news pages

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Can’t help feeling nobody knows what to say beyond photos of fireworks. With untold dead bodies beneath

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Hope headline is right and US doesn’t rally round the flag

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This was great news for once this Friday. A model for how politicians should be. Representatives of and for the people

Sunday thought: Trump’s Real Reason for War Friends,

Sunday thought: Trump’s Real Reason for War
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Mass murder to protect cruel corrupt criminal rulers in US and Israel. And mini mes elsewhere

The Greens’ win in Gorton and Denton was just the start of the record-breaking

The age of American fascism

Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters

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Obstinate clinging to counterproductive cruel policies. It’s not immigration that cripples public services, it’s ultra wealthy elites sucking up all resources for unbelievably gross luxury living. Immigration decline starving caring services of staff

A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this | Simon Tisdall We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentat...

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Who’s the Evil Empire now?

Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran has no mandate – or legal basis US president violates UN charter just days into his Board of Peace era, and chooses to take the biggest gamble of his administration

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Trump’s derangement syndrome now completely out of self control. Like a blind Samson raging for revenge. Let’s hope the pillars of the Temple don’t smother us all

Yanis Varoufakis calls prosecution after admitting taking ecstasy 40 years ago ‘ridiculous’ Greek leftwing intellectual and former minister says his indictment is indicative of far-right turn in western politics

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The right wing seizes upon the counter productive war on drugs to bolster its conservative base. Failed Labour in Bye bye, bibbly bye byes election. Now trying to martyr Varoufakis in Greece

James Butler | Just Voting The Green Party’s Hannah Spencer has won the Gorton and Denton by-election with 41 per cent of the vote. Progressive...

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Penetrating review of sources and implications of the inspiring Green victory. Best (dim) prospect of a vote for justice at next GE is death bed reversion of Labour to democratic socialist principles, and some kind of alliance with Greens etc to stop Reform

Epstein, eugenics, and the far right Long after race science fell into public disgrace, Epstein was working to revive its core assumptions – and connecting biological hierarchy to far-right politics. As Dr Annabel Sowemimo uncovers...

Epstein, eugenics, and the far right
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Extraordinarily revealing article about Epstein’s funding and promotion of race ‘science’ in elite universities. A microcosm of mega wealthy obsession with their own ‘natural’ superiority and far right advocacy of eugenics

Reacting to Labour's devastating loss to the Green Party in Gorton and Denton, Keir Starmer claims that only Labour can unite communities. I agree. He convinced Muslims to vote for a white working class woman representing a party led by a gay Jewish man.

Joyful to see Goodwin and Farage having a huge wettie and rightwing media scrabbling around for credibility in the rubble of their cocky predictions and polling.
You don’t have this in the bag.We voted for change in 2024. That never meant hate-fuelled populism. It meant hope. You don’t give us that.

Populism is primarily caused by relative deprivation and downward social mobility from J Komlos and  RWER issue 112 Komlos (2024b) notes that technological disruption, hyper-globalization, neoclassical economic policies, and the financial crisis set the stage for populism. He ar…

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This argues that populism is rooted in relative deprivation and downward social mobility. Rooted in the hegemony of neoliberalism. Right wing populism diverts blame to scapegoats notably immigrants. Left analysis accurately pinpoints the elite capture of wealth .

Gorton and Denton by-election: The silent majority isn't silent, and it isn't Reform Hannah Spencer’s historic Green victory shows voters are rejecting division and embracing progressive politics

Gorton and Denton by-election: The silent majority isn't silent, and it isn't Reform
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Great column on lessons of Gorton and Denton. The genuine silent majority want social justice and a fair future for the planet. Labour must pivot away from fascism to survive

The Ground Game is Back In an era of fractured politics and collapsing trust, grassroots organising offers the left a path to victory.

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Drop in overseas workers is ‘car crash’ for UK hospitals and care homes, say experts Care roles hit particularly hard by UK’s lurch to the right on migration, according to analysis of Home Office data

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How fascism produces national self harm. We will pay a high price for Labour chasing the Reform vote by its devastating attack on vitally necessary immigration

UK’s (selective) clampdown on protest The European Legal Support Centre has “verified 964 cases of “anti-Palestinian repression” from January 2019 until August 2025, including students…

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Yet it’s the Right that complains of two tier policing and justice!

Why does America feel worse than other countries? Crime. In most ways, the U.S. is a typical rich country. Except for crime.

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The wrong kind of American exceptionalism
Thought provoking and challenging

'The Green Menace': The Daily Mail's newest scary stories for Middle England Ahead of the Gorton and Denton by-election, the paper's working hard to cast the Green Party as mad, bad, and dangerous to know.

'The Green Menace': The Daily Mail's newest scary stories for Middle England
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The Mail has undermined social justice since its lies about Soviet links destroyed the first Labour government a century ago. Its vomit of hate against Polanski continues this vileness

8 Books that Inspired ‘How Did Britain Come to This?’ – Gwyn Bevan recommends - LSE Press From Mazzucato to Markovits, Gwyn Bevan explores the writers which shaped his book, How Did Britain Come To This? coming soon from LSE Press.

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Labour And Greens Clash Over Betting Influence On Manchester By-Election Campaign Exclusive: The Labour Party and the Greens have clashed over the influence of political betting on the eve of the Gorton and Denton by-election, tr...

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All bets should be off in elections especially as odds can be swung by few large donations

Every Day He Eats the Book This week: my god I want Matt Goodwin to lose. Also: a new way of seeing the world; and some very old work on a very old bus.

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Anyone but Baldwin in Denton and Gorton. Preferably the Green plumber please