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May 19, 2026
After the painful ruse of Starmerism, the left should be cautious about Andy Burnham | Owen Jones
With the Greens now a viable alternative, a Labour leader will not win power again without the progressive vote. But they will need to earn itLabour’s failures have made a rightwing authoritarian g...
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May 8, 2026
What do the unfolding local election results mean? Our panel responds
Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski have reason to celebrate – but what next for Labour and the Tories now that the two-party system has been demolished?• Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in ...
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May 6, 2026
Zack Polanski’s Jewish identity is being erased because his views are too leftwing | Owen Jones
The leader of the Green party has faced antisemitic attacks, and yet his thoughts on the subject don’t count as far as the rightwing UK press is concernedThe surge of the Green party has emphasised...
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April 23, 2026
The international right has CPAC. Has the left finally found its answer? | Owen Jones
Spain’s PM, Pedro Sánchez, hosted the inaugural meeting of the Global Progressive Mobilisation. Keir Starmer and other social democrats were notable by their absenceCan progressives push back the r...
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April 15, 2026
Even the neocons have turned against wars in the Middle East | Owen Jones
Millions have died as a result of disastrous US-led military adventurism. But there have been no consequences for those who championed it for so longWhat an admission. “The threat of terrorism” fro...
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April 10, 2026
Why is anyone surprised by the US and Israel’s latest war? It’s only what the world allowed them to do in Gaza | Owen Jones
The price of silence from western politicians and media outlets over Israel’s actions in Palestine is now being paid by Iranian and Lebanese civiliansThe president of the United States threatened t...
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April 1, 2026
Tony Blair says the left is in ‘unholy alliance’ with Islamists. It’s a desperate last ploy to quell the anger over Gaza | Owen Jones
The former PM has no valid response when progressives raise a voice over war crimes, so he seeks to mute them. But we’ll take no moral lectures from himThe left, claims Tony Blair, has forged an “a...
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March 25, 2026
There are no missiles raining down on Havana. But what I saw there was still warfare | Owen Jones
Trump’s oil blockade is starving the island of vital resources. His brute force isn’t making America great again – it’s breeding resentment across the globeThe US has become a power that knows only...
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March 19, 2026
Trump thinks brute force will arrest the US’s decline. His heavy-handed actions in Iran are only accelerating it | Owen Jones
From Venezuela to the Middle East, this is gangsterism fused with colonialism. It repudiates the moral language through which US power once justified itselfGone are any pretences about saving the I...
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March 9, 2026
Britons don’t want any part of Trump’s war fixation – the sooner Labour realises that the better | Owen Jones
Kowtowing to US foreign policy in Iraq and Afghanistan had disastrous consequences. Why are leaders making the same mistake all over again?Here is the sort of analysis you’re being served up by our...
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March 2, 2026
Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you | Owen Jones
The OU has capitulated to a pro-Israel lobby group about the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’. The wider context is impossible to ignoreThe west is in the midst of the most serious assault on fr...
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February 27, 2026
I saw how the Greens channelled voters’ anger – and fused it with hope. That’s why they won in Gorton and Denton | Owen Jones
Starmer called the byelection a battle for the nation’s soul. This result shows Labour has lost that – and I think it will lose much moreIt wasn’t even close. The scale of victory of the Green part...
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