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 faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the ...

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 ...

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

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

My very amateur photos of some magnificant creatures in the French Alps.

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

Why have we paid £93m for a £15m bridge?

A potent myth is being used to justify economic capture by a parasitic class.

As deliberately-contaminated sewage sludge is spread on farmland, it feels as if humanity is on a suicide mission.

Who is most responsible for high abortion rates? The religious right.