There is strong evidence of a causal association between growing inequality and the rise of populist authoritarian movements. A paper in the Journal of European Public Policy found that a one-unit ...

The police, governments and the media have sought to conflate peaceful protest with extremism and terrorism. Protest methods used for centuries, such as blocking roads, have been recast as the end of ...

The democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It begins when a centrist party crushes hope in democracy. When Keir Starmer’s government takes a chainsaw to people’s ...

I hate to sound like a prepper, but I feel bound to confess that over the past month I’ve been stockpiling food. I think, if you can, you should do the same. I’ve put aside 25kg of rice, 15kg of dried ...

It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why.

The mythical tiger pursued by helicopters and armed gendarmes speaks volumes about what is missing from our lives.

Yes, Putin and his henchmen should be prosecuted for war crimes. So should those who led the invasion of Iraq.

Why older people must stand in solidarity with the youth climate strikes.

It’s not disruption that’s being prosecuted in this country. It’s dissent.

Real men in government use their position to sell weapons.