Across the political spectrum, the British are clear: American-style health care is a terrible idea. by: Sarah Jaffe Trump-style politics, and particularly American-style privatized healthcare, are the bogeymen of the U.K. election. (Photo: The Progressive) […]
By: Alan MacLeod On the face of it, Thursday’s election result could hardly have been better for Boris Johnson and his ruling Conservative Party. Campaigning on a simple slogan of “get Brexit done,” the Tories […]
There is no way to spin the results of this election as anything other than disastrous. So what should be done? by: Peter Bloom The broadcaster’s exit poll results projected on the outside of the […]
“We will defend our public services—especially the NHS—from attempts to degrade or destroy them, and support, as well as we are able, the overworked heroes who keep them afloat.” by: Jake Johnson, Britain’s Prime Minister […]
UK Jews Welcome Resounding Defeat of Corbyn in British Election; ‘You Should Never Have to Live in Fear Again,’ They Are Told by Benjamin Kerstein Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves Islington Town […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Global Research, Ladies and gentlemen I have here at my fingertips indisputable proof that egregious election meddling took place in the United Kingdom on Thursday. Before you get all excited, no, it wasn’t […]
By Media Lens Thoreau got it right: ‘Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.’ (Thoreau, ‘Walden’, Penguin, 1983, p.68) The same is certainly true of propaganda. We can laugh now at McCarthyite […]
By Jonathan Cook Chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has not only misrepresented the known facts about Labour and its supposed antisemitism crisis. He has not only interfered in an overtly, politically partisan manner in the December […]
by Finian Cunningham It is a ludicrous situation when anyone criticizing Israeli state violations against Palestinians or neighbouring countries is then instantly discredited as being “antisemitic”. We see this in Britain and the United States all […]
A recent report outlines how Conservative social security promises would raise the UK child poverty rate to a record-breaking high The Resolution Foundation released a report, ‘The shifting shape of social security’, which covers the real-world impact […]