Issue 1580 - 09 April 2026
Back to reality
Artemis II and the new space race do not represent a great leap in human progress, argues Paul Demarty.Instead what we have is a criminal refusal to take responsibility for the dire conditions here on Earth
Letters
Those keys; Didn’t join; False premise; Marxist demands; Formerly radical; Kanye ban
No time to waste
Far-right politicians and media outlets are peddling a delusional and reckless North Sea fantasy. Britain pays global prices for both gas and oil. Meanwhile, the planet continues to heat up and targets are being routinely missed, writes Eddie Ford
Basic rights are under attack
It is not only the government, the police and the judiciary. Too much of the left takes a ‘free speech … but’ approach. Then there are the AWL scabs, says Carla Roberts
A study in bureaucratic inertia
Marking a hundred years since the 1926 General Strike, Jack Conrad shows that, while the Tory government urgently, assiduously, ruthlessly prepared, the TUC was content to pass left-sounding resolutions and then urge strikers to tend to their gardens
An unexpected result
Following its referendum defeat, the far-right government is mired in corruption and clearly in trouble. However, writes Toby Abse, the ‘centre-left’ is a complete shambles and offers nothing substantially different
Ambitions and institutional limits
Equipped with a long political pedigree and what counts nowadays as a radical social democratic platform, Avi Lewis has just been elected NDP leader. Siamak Mehr reports
Not a clean, but a dirty split
The standard left narrative of the 1914-21 schism in the Second International is misleading and nowadays too easily leads to irresponsible splits. Mike Macnair argues for historical complication
Politics of civilisational threat
The most revealing feature of the fragile US-Israeli two-week ceasefire with Iran is its vagueness. Yassamine Mather assesses the internal and regional effects of the war