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A group of protesters march down a city street holding trans pride flags and placards. At the centre, a person holds a large sign reading: “THE THREAT OF TRANS PEOPLE IS A STATISTICAL ANOMALY! FACT: EHRC WANTS TO HUMILIATE TRANS PEOPLE. SUPREME COURT RULING DID NOT HEAR FROM ONE TRANS PERSON.” The crowd includes people of various ages and genders, with police officers visible to the left and Union Jack flags hanging in the background. The mood is serious but determined.

Correctional Politics and the Cruelty of Clarity

Trans people are not confused. They are not misled. They have not been lied to. They are responding, with dignity and resistance, to a sustained campaign of dehumanisation, spearheaded by a cross-section of legal hardliners, culture warriors, so called feminists, and opportunists.

Blessed Are The Warmongers

This is how Putin wages war: deliberate strikes on civilian centres, on housing, schools, power stations, hospitals.

What Do We Call Trump?

If Joe Biden was condemned as “Genocide Joe” for arming Israel during its war on Gaza, what do we call the man who not only restocked its weapons but signed off on the latest assault?

Austerity and Missiles

As Putin wages a war without end, Britain prepares for conflict in the only way it knows how, by cutting everything except the military.

Trump’s Peace Plan Is Just Surrender by Another Name

Donald Trump claimed he would end the war in Ukraine on “day one,” yet 54 days into his presidency, the conflict rages on, because his so-called peace plan is nothing more than a capitulation to Putin’s imperial ambitions.

Palestine a homeland denied

The Middle East descends into the Abyss

The Middle East now stands on a knife’s edge as cycles of violence threaten to engulf the region in widening conflict. But even amid the drumbeats of war sounded by the powerful, hope persists in the solidarity of ordinary people demanding justice and charting a course away from the abyss.