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Look at Keir Starmer’s tenure as prime minister. This is no ‘decent man’ who got unlucky

From Gaza to the Peter Mandelson row, his abandoned pledges to the ‘island of strangers’ claim, Starmer’s time at No 10 was truly dismal, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Makerfield voters are giving Burnham the benefit of the doubt. If he fails, the consequences will be grave

Winning this byelection wouldn’t make Reform disappear. Would Burnham really have the courage needed to see them off in No 10, asks Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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There are no guardrails now on the right of UK politics: where Restore Britain goes, others will follow

In the UK – and across the west - incendiary language and white supremacist policies are entering the political mainstream, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Not yet worried about tyranny in Britain? This is why you should be

Chilling comments by Reform figures can’t be dismissed when you consider the overwhelming power of the UK’s centralised state, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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'Authoritarian' Labour condemned by former leader for visa ban on left-wing speakers

ZACK Polanski and Jeremy Corbyn have both condemned the Labour Government after a left-wing US speaker they had been due to meet was banned from…

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Humiliated by Iran, the US wants an easy scalp: keep your eyes on Cuba

The decision to charge Raúl Castro is grimly reminiscent of the run-up to Trump’s military operation in Venezuela. Meanwhile, the Cuban people are suffering needlessly, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Progressives must unite behind Andy Burnham in Makerfield

Letters: Dr Craig Reeves and Steve Williams say there is a strong case for the Green party and its voters to help to the Greater Manchester mayor defeat Reform UK – but Rosalind Brown-Grant is sceptical about his environmental credentials

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After the painful ruse of Starmerism, the left should be cautious about Andy Burnham

With the Greens now a viable alternative, a Labour leader will not win power again without the progressive vote. But they will need to earn it, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Zack Polanski’s Jewish identity is being erased because he is leftwing

The leader of the Green party has faced antisemitic attacks, and yet his thoughts on the subject don’t count as far as the rightwing UK press is concerned, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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The international right has CPAC. Has the left finally found its answer?

Spain’s PM, Pedro Sánchez, hosted the inaugural meeting of the Global Progressive Mobilisation. Keir Starmer and other social democrats were notable by their absence, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Even the neocons have turned against wars in the Middle East

Millions have died as a result of disastrous US-led military adventurism. But there have been no consequences for those who championed it for so long, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Why is anyone surprised by the US and Israel’s latest war? It’s only what the world allowed them to do in Gaza

The price of silence from western politicians and media outlets over Israel’s actions in Palestine is now being paid by Iranian and Lebanese civilians, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Tony Blair says the left is in ‘unholy alliance’ with Islamists. It’s a desperate last ploy to quell the anger over Gaza

The former PM has no valid response when progressives raise a voice over war crimes, so he seeks to mute them. But we’ll take no moral lectures from him, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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There are no missiles raining down on Havana. But what I saw there was still warfare

Trump’s oil blockade is starving the island of vital resources. His brute force isn’t making America great again – it’s breeding resentment across the globe, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Trump thinks brute force will arrest the US’s decline. His heavy-handed actions in Iran are only accelerating it

From Venezuela to the Middle East, this is gangsterism fused with colonialism. It repudiates the moral language through which US power once justified itself, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Britons don’t want any part of Trump’s war fixation – the sooner Labour realises that the better

Kowtowing to US foreign policy in Iraq and Afghanistan had disastrous consequences. Why are leaders making the same mistake again, asks Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you

The OU has capitulated to a pro-Israel lobby group about the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’. The wider context is impossible to ignore, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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I saw how the Greens channelled voters’ anger – and fused it with hope. That’s why they won in Gorton and Denton

Starmer called the byelection a battle for the nation’s soul. This result shows Labour has lost that – and I think it will lose much more, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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What’s the state of this Starmer-led nation? Speak to angry voters in Gorton and Denton and it all becomes clear

I had so many conversations with people fed up with all the chaos, deceit and U-turns. Politics must respond to this disenchantment, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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The Palestine Action ruling vindicates the courageous – and shames the complicit

The home secretary has vowed to fight the judgment, but she and the government are on the wrong side of history, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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The left warned that Starmerism would end like this. Now all of Britain faces the fallout

Peter Mandelson helped Morgan McSweeney privilege Labour’s reactionary forces to sustain the PM, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Starmer has little to offer voters of either right or left in Gorton and Denton. That’s why he’s facing a perfect storm

The Greens are buoyant as Labour struggles. After shredding any semblance of a progressive agenda, fear of Reform is all the PM’s party has left, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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The Burnham fiasco shows that the right of the Labour party would rather see it burn than lose control

Starmer’s drones see themselves as characters in The West Wing, full of machiavellian skullduggery but with none of the idealism. No wonder Labour is running out of road, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Donald Trump needs helpers for his appalling neocolonialist project. What else is this ‘board of peace’?

Blair, Putin, Erdoğan, Orbán: the names of those invited to serve say it all. And it’s about so much more than Gaza, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Iran’s protesters need our support – not another western-intervention disaster

Previous meddling has damaged the region, and once again the the US and Israel don’t have Iranians’ best interests at heart, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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