Latest UK

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  Cockburn: Boris Johnson Recklessly Picks at the Scabs of Ireland’s Violent Past

  Ireland does not relish a confrontation with the UK, but it has little choice but to demand that the EU stick to its commitments
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  Fisk: Lies and buffoonery

  How Boris Johnson’s fantasy world casts dark shadows in the Middle East
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  Cole: 15,549 Gun Homicides in US in 2017; 32 (160) in UK

  We are reeling from back-to-back mass shootings, at least one of them an explicit manifestation of white nationalist terrorism in which Americans of a specific ethnicity were targeted, Nazi-like.
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  Cockburn: No-deal Brexit could lead to economic cold war with the EU

  Turning Britain into a ‘Singapore on Thames’ used to sound impractical. But in the context of a permanent hostile relationship between Britain and the EU, it is now far more feasible
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  Cockburn: Brexit Britain is on the brink of a breakdown

  Economic disaster may or may not be around the corner, but Brexit has already produced irreversible political reformation and disintegration which will not go away whether or not Britain is inside or outside the EU
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  Cole: Scotland Renewables making enough Electricity to power Two Scotlands

  And other Wind Power Successes
• Coles: The Tragic Inevitability of Boris Johnson PM

  Who better to take charge of such a mess than a clown?
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  Feffer: Boris Johnson and the New Battle of Britain

  As hard Brexiteer Boris Johnson takes over, Labour is finally coming down on the side of Remain. Will it be too late?
• Sarkar: Protests Erupt in London as Boris Johnson Is Sworn In

  Johnson has crafted a public persona for himself as “bumbling, ineffectual, posh but benign,” but says this facade conceals “someone who has always been a very ambitious man.”
• Mair: In the age of extinction, who is extreme?

  Extinction Rebellion’s program is coherent and necessary, we should defend it from the right-wing think tank's attacks
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  Cockburn: Why Boris Johnson is Even More Dangerous Than Trump

  Is the rise of Boris Johnson to be the next prime minister the product of a soft coup?
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  Monbiot: Poor tenants pay for landlords to live like kings

  It doesn’t have to be this way
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  Cole: Trump Breached Iran Deal to Spite Obama

  Former British ambassador to the US Kim Darroch alleged in a diplomatic cable that Trump’s motivation in breaching the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was motivated by nothing more than spite
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  Monbiot: Owned

  As I’ve found to my cost, the billionaire press seeks to kill change before it happens
• Thorold: Democracy versus the climate?

  If we are to scale this challenge, we need the legitimacy conferred by a responsive democracy. More democracy, not less. Enter the citizens assembly
• Early: XR’s massive summer uprising

  Extinction Rebellion is to target five UK cities with civil disobedience in July in a bid to force politicians to take faster action on climate change
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  Cook: The plot to keep Jeremy Corbyn out of power

  We might finally understand that a system designed to pacify us while a few grow rich at the expense of our children’s future and our own does not have to continue. That we can raise our voices and loudly say: “No!”
• Thanki: The UN climate talks are coming to Britain

  The climate justice movement will be ready
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  Monbiot: Our toxic political system produces toxic leaders

  We should design a system that rewards kindness and honesty
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  Monbiot: Want to tackle inequality? Then first change our land ownership laws

  From housing costs to wildlife collapse, we pay the price while the rich boost their profits. But from today we can fight back