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Gaza faces increasingly bleak reality one month after Israel ended ceasefire

17 April 2025 @ 3:42 pm

Western states are still failing to put the pressure on Israel needed to end the bloodshed

Reform backers are importing the US’s ‘big money’ playbook to UK politics

17 April 2025 @ 1:18 pm

Great British PAC wants to unite the right. To do so, it hopes to Americanise UK politics with help of donors like Elon Musk

Trump’s tariff tantrums boost case for new financial architecture in Africa

16 April 2025 @ 10:13 am

While many countries in Africa are suffering fallout of US tariffs, this is a chance to reduce dollar dependency

‘A circus of horror’: The cruel visit to ‘staged’ extermination camp in Mexico

11 April 2025 @ 3:44 pm

Mothers hoped visit would offer answers about the disappeared. Instead, they say, it was a state-orchestrated spectacle

Populism's silver lining

10 April 2025 @ 11:12 am

Danny Sriskandarajah on the power of collective action

Trump’s tariffs are not unlike previous US plan that ended in disaster

9 April 2025 @ 9:44 am

The Project for the New American Century, launched 28 years ago, offers a warning for current Trumpian world order

How the far right is using thinness to radicalise women and teen girls

8 April 2025 @ 9:12 am

The far right has normalised much of its ideology within mainstream politics – and ‘body fascism’ is part of that

Inside massacre of Gaza aid workers found dead and buried with hands bound

4 April 2025 @ 12:11 pm

Bodies were found a week after Civil Defense and Palestinian Red Crescent crew members went on rescue mission to Rafah

Women will suffer most from UK government’s cuts to disability benefits

3 April 2025 @ 9:31 am

Cuts will push hundreds of thousands of women into poverty or force them out of workforce

Asylum still frozen in Greece despite fresh bloodshed in Syria

2 April 2025 @ 1:52 pm

Syrians in Greece are stuck between a rock and a hard place, with asylum suspended and their country in ruins