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Sir Keir Starmer at parliament, April 2026. Photo: Flickr/House of Commons

The vacuum where Keir Starmer used to stand – weekly briefing

Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown, Downing Street, 24 Feb 2010. Photo: 10 Downing Street / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Elections 2026: Bring Out Your Dead

Islamabad Talks 11 April 2026. Photo: Hamed Malekpour / CC BY 4.0

Can there be peace between Iran and the US?

Plaid Cymru manifesto launch 09 April 2026 in Wrexham. Photo: Matthew Horwood / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Total eclipse of the heartlands

John Westmoreland

The company in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Photo: Marc Brenner, Royal Shakespeare Company production photo

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui – theatre review

Palestine demonstration in London. Photo: Steve Eason / Flickr / CC BY-NC 4.0

Ban on peace marches must be rejected

Strikers from four London schools outside the Department for Education. Photo: Pete Webster

Striking teachers rally against Bridget Phillipson at the Department for Education

Electoral map of part of Berlin, Bundestag election, February 2025.

Voting and social class in Germany: Reading the electoral map

Marx and Imperialism

Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

Donald Trump bids farewell to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman al Saud at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, May 2025. Source: United States government work – Flickr / cropped from original / Public domain

Deal or no deal? US and Iran standoff

David Torrance, The Edge of Revolution: The General Strike That Shook Britain, (London: Bloomsbury 2026) 320pp.

The Edge of Revolution: The General Strike That Shook Britain – book review

John Westmoreland

G4S Ambulance/ Photo: Robert Dale

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