After her books faced bans for their unashamed portrayals of women’s lives and aspirations, Edna O’Brien — who has died aged 93 — became a powerful voice against censorship that haunted the supporters of Ireland’s broken system.
The TUC’s decision to sell its iconic Congress House — a modernist monument to the strength of workers — is a sad example of today’s labour movement increasingly losing its sense of purpose.
Rachel Reeves' plans to slash public spending and investment on the basis that Britain is ‘broke’ is a rehash of the exact rhetoric that gave us 14 years of Tory austerity.
Without emergency funding, British universities are at a real risk of collapse — something that could lead to thousands of job losses and local economies in crisis. The government can't let this happen.
The Labour Party reportedly agreed not to introduce media reforms in exchange for Rupert Murdoch’s backing — ensuring that the corrosive role that media elites play in our country will continue with impunity under a Starmer government.
EXCLUSIVE: Ten trade union general secretaries have written to Keir Starmer to demand the scrapping of the two-child limit and the 'immediate reinstatement' of the seven MPs suspended for voting against Britain's biggest driver of child poverty.
The ICJ ruling finding Israel's occupation unlawful makes the first test for David Lammy's 'progressive realism' clear: either Labour opposes dispossession and genocide, or it is complicit.
Keir Starmer's decision to suspend MPs opposing child poverty exposes not only his authoritarian instincts but his fear of discussion over arguments he knows he cannot win.
Two recent books exploring the post-crash ‘mass protest decade’ and the Left’s ‘populist moment’ present a vital — but sobering — assessment of the Left’s consistent failures and potential prospects.
A new documentary uses AI and innovative generative technology to profile the 76-year-old British musician and producer. Is its pioneering software a gateway or a gimmick?
40 years ago today, 11 Dublin supermarket workers walked out on strike to refuse the selling of South African fruit — an act of defiance that would make Ireland the first Western nation to ban apartheid goods.
Modernist architecture in India and colonial West Africa may have been introduced by jobbing English architects, but new generations of local architects quickly made the style their own. A new exhibition at the V&A tells the story.