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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

Peter Mandelson is slimed by an environmental protestor while business secretary, 06 March 2009. Photo: Plane Stupid / CC BY-SA 2.0

Keir Starmer: Stuck in the Mandelson sh**storm

Sam Wetherell, Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain (London: Bloomsbury 2025), 448pp.

Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain – book review

Rachel Reeves and Ed Miliband host a roundtable for energy providers. Photo: HM Treasury / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

A Predictable Lack of Energy

Posters for Reform and the Green Party outside adjacent houses in Denton, Greater Manchester / Wikimedia Commons / CC0 1.0 Universal

Manchester voters reject both Starmer and Farage

Keir Starmer with Peter Mandelson 26/02/2025 British Embassy, Washington D.C. Photo: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ cropped from original

The Epstein Curse rips through British Politics

Venezuela in Crisis: Socialist Perspectives, ed. and trans. Anderson M. Bean (Haymarket Books 2026), 332pp.

Venezuela in Crisis: Socialist Perspectives – book review

Just Stop Oil Activists Walking Up Whitehall. Photo: Alisdare Hickson / Wiki Commons / CC 2.0

Just Stop Oil’s record is complicated

Cory Doctorow, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It (Verso 2025), 352pp.

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It – book review

Seth Harp, The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces (Penguin Viking 2025), 368pp.

The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces – book review

Rachel Reeves delivering the Autumn 2024 Budget. Photo: Kirsty O'Connor / Treasury, OGL 3/ Wikimedia Commons

Labour’s Budget desperation

Nigel Farage, Keir Starmer. Photos: House of Commons / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

The myth of a straight Starmer v Farage choice exposed

Irish politician Catherine Connolly in November 2022. Photo: Houses of the Oireachtas / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Unlikely Drama of the Irish Presidential Election

Kemi Badenoch at Conservative Party Conference in 2023. Photo: The Conservative Party / Flickr / CC BY 2.0

Tory Conference: a genuine historic low point

Sam Dalrymple, Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia (William Collins 2025), 528pp.

Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia – book review

Photo: Sam Greenhalgh / Flickr / CC BY 2.0

Beasts from the ID

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