Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
America committed a war crime last night. Another one. We’re so used to it happening that we’ve installed a special filter – one reaction for when America bombs someone,...
Every now and then (it used to be weekly, but then a pandemic happened) we like to highlight three or four stories that go full-Guardian, but don’t require an...
Every week (or, rather, most weeks, since the coronavirus torpedoed our schedule), we like to highlight three or four stories that go full-Guardian, but don’t require an entire article...
Every week (or, rather, most weeks, since the coronavirus torpedoed our schedule), we like to highlight three or four stories that go full-Guardian, but don’t require an entire article...
Why are Labour MPs upset at the idea of being in power? Why didn't notionally "liberal" or "progressive" columnists cheer on the idea of removing Britains "hard right" government?...
Kit Knightly “The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.” Lord Acton David Cameron has a book out. You’ve probably heard. There’s...
In 2006, to mark the 30th anniversary of Harold Wilson's retirement, the BBC released "The Plot Against Harold Wilson". It details how, throughout Wilson leadership, MI5 and the CIA...
And so ends the Labour career of Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's PR man, one of the key architects of the "dodgy dossier", a man complicit in every death that...
Catte Black The Khashoggi incident continues to roll out in screaming headlines. The “confession” that the journalist died in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul is the latest twist, an...
Jonathan Freedland has weighed in on Khashoggi case. He's outraged, of course. Because they all are. Every single voice in the mainstream world has suddenly realised...
The following comments – sent in by one of our readers, 0use4msm – were censored by the Guardian. Which of the well-publicised CiF “community standards” did they breach? Removed...
by Jonathan Cook For months, a campaign has been aimed at destabilising British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, accused of anti-Semitism. The right-wing party, Tony Blair’s heir, and pro-Israel...
by Alexander Mercouris at the Duran It is becoming increasingly difficult for the British authorities and for the British media to deny that ‘due process‘ – ie. the well-established...
The US alphabet agencies recently released some formerly classified files on JFK. There's nothing much in them, because well...why would there be? Supposing the CIA were complicit, who's going...
When I first went to Palestine as a young reporter in the 1960s, I stayed on a kibbutz. The people I met were hard-working, spirited and called themselves socialists....
In an attempt to restore some his fast-disappearing credibility, Jonathan Freedland gives a half-hearted, over-qualified apology to Jeremy Corbyn. It's self-serving, dishonest, and far more revealing than he meant...
by Craig Murray I have watched incredulous as the CIA’s blatant lie has grown and grown as a media story – blatant because the CIA has made no attempt...
The unwillingness, on behalf of the Labour right, to unite with the rest of the party and attack the Conservatives at a time when they are politically divided and...