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February 17, 2026
What’s the state of this Starmer-led nation? Speak to angry voters in Gorton and Denton and it all becomes clear | Owen Jones
I had so many conversations with people fed up with all the chaos, deceit and U-turns. Politics must respond to this disenchantmentYou can feel Labour’s electoral coalition fraying in the cold, rai...
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February 13, 2026
The Palestine Action ruling vindicates the courageous – and shames the complicit | Owen Jones
The home secretary has vowed to fight the judgment, but she and the government are on the wrong side of historyThis is a day of humiliation for those who facilitated Israel’s genocide in Gaza – and...
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February 9, 2026
The left warned that Starmerism would end like this. Now all of Britain faces the fallout | Owen Jones
Peter Mandelson helped Morgan McSweeney privilege Labour’s reactionary forces in a Faustian pact to sustain the PM. What they sowed, we’ll reapA chicken that loses its head can still, for a short p...
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February 3, 2026
Starmer has little to offer voters of either right or left in Gorton and Denton. That’s why he’s facing a perfect storm | Owen Jones
The Greens are buoyant as Labour struggles. After shredding any semblance of a progressive agenda, fear of Reform is all the PM’s party has leftLabour’s soul is being laid bare in the Gorton and De...
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January 27, 2026
The Burnham fiasco shows that the right of the Labour party would rather see it burn than lose control | Owen Jones
Starmer’s drones see themselves as characters in The West Wing, full of machiavellian skullduggery but with none of the idealism. No wonder Labour is running out of roadOn its own terms, Keir Starm...
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January 19, 2026
Donald Trump needs helpers for his appalling neocolonialist project. What else is this ‘board of peace’? | Owen Jones
Blair, Putin, Erdoğan, Orbán: the names of those invited to serve say it all. And it's about so much more than GazaThe fate of the Palestinian people offers a warning about the future of humanity. ...
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January 13, 2026
Iran’s protesters need our support – not another western-intervention disaster | Owen Jones
Previous meddling has damaged the region, and once again the the US and Israel don’t have Iranians’ best interests at heartWhat does it take to shake illusions in western intervention? This is not ...
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January 6, 2026
Trump’s new world order is being born – and Venezuela is just the start | Owen Jones
The US president has been quite clear that Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Greenland are in his sights. We must believe himAs Venezuela’s skyline lit up under US bombs, we were watching the morbid sympt...
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December 16, 2025
Europe is a continent soaked in economic pessimism. Until we change that, the far right will rise and rise | Owen Jones
Since 2008, struggling communities have been told they are in competition with migrants. Only a model that gives them hope will halt the populists How much does Europe’s future resemble its gruesom...
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December 9, 2025
Pity Keir Starmer – he’s the fall guy for a Labour right that’s ready to cast him aside | Owen Jones
The PM is the face of failure, but he is not solely responsible. As the Blairite ideologues mass behind Wes Streeting, we should hold them to account tooThere have been far too few defences of Keir...
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December 1, 2025
Your Party's antics assume a luxury the left does not have: time | Owen Jones
The project could still be a beacon of hope but legal spats, public denunciations and an obsession with internal process must be consigned to the pastFour months is a long time in the history of th...
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November 26, 2025
This French judge approved Netanyahu’s arrest warrant. Now Trump is targeting him | Owen Jones
Three ICC judges have been put on a sanctions list with terrorists after approving an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister. This is the charade of the ‘rules-based order’The fate of one Frenc...
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