Issue 1555 - 02 October 2025
A pariah state
Pop singers, classical musicians, actors, film makers, sports people have joined the boycott campaign. World public opinion has decisively turned against the genocidal Israeli regime. Anne McShane gives three cheers
Letters
Media answers; Trust Sir Tony?; Orwell’s red elite; SUtR barrier; YP Sparts
Neither king nor empress
There is no reason to take sides in what is an unsavoury power struggle between MPs. Meanwhile, Jack Conrad warns of an impending anti-left witch-hunt and calls for the left to unite around programme and principle
Republicanism and the split
It is not yet possible to assess whether Corbyn or Sultana are champions of the UK’s social monarchy or the English social republic, says Steve Freeman. Choosing between them is not a matter of age or experience, but politics
The road from Eton College
In the sixth of his series of seven articles, Paul Flewers asks why George Orwell’s ‘whips woven of words’ fell so easily into the hands of his political opponents
Probabilities, not certainties
Should we refuse to take sides against our own ruling class because we lack absolute theoretical certainty? Should we downgrade the centrality of programme for diplomatic unity? Mike Macnair answers Jaques de Fouw
Reds with deep state connections
Tobias Abse reviews John Foot The Red Brigades: the terrorists who brought Italy to its knees Bloomsbury, 2025, pp450, £25
McCarthyite secrets and lies
Gaby Rubin reviews Julia Bracher (director), The Rosenbergs: atomic spies, PBS America
Fear and loathing in Liverpool
Can Sir Keir and his gormless front bench turn things around? Paul Demarty reports on Labour’s conference, Andy Burnham, bashing migrants and the risky strategy of talking up Farage and Reform UK. It could all horribly backfire