US President Donald Trump has delivered the most extraordinary public rebuke of a British prime minister in the post-war period, insisting that he and NATO allies fall fully into line behind the US-led war on Iran. Speaking from the Oval Office Tuesday, Trump denounced Keir Starmer for initially refusing to …
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Britain’s Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer backed the US-Israeli bombardment of Iran in a Downing Street address on Saturday afternoon, providing political cover for a nakedly illegal act of aggression and a regime-change operation. Starmer sought to obscure Britain’s direct military role in the escalating war with weasel words. Following …
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew, Duke of York) was arrested at the royal residence Sandringham on Thursday morning. He is the first senior member of the British royal family to be arrested since King Charles I in 1647, during the English Civil War. Police arrested Andrew on suspicion of Misconduct …
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Military vessel HDMS Knud Rasmussen of the Royal Danish Navy patrols near Nuuk, Greenland, on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. [AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka] Major political crises inevitably produce turning points in which essential conflicts and issues, long hidden, emerge. The Trump administration’s conflict with the European imperialist powers over control of …
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The High Court of England and Wales will hear a legal challenge this Friday by Palestine Action against its banning by the Starmer Labour government under counter-terrorism laws. The court’s agreeing to hear the challenge came as Home Secretary Yvette Cooper posted a draft order on the government’s website to …
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“I think for the Post Office scandal, the immediate priority is quashing the convictions, getting the compensation to those that are entitled to it as quickly as possible.” Sir Keir Starmer, January 2024 The Labour government has been in power 10 months and still there are hundreds of outstanding compensation …
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Sharon Graham, the general secretary of Unite, has taken pole position within the trade union bureaucracy in advocating for the Labour government’s militarist agenda. Graham welcomed Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s February 25 announcement in Parliament of an increase in military spending from 2.3 percent to 2.5 percent of GDP …
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced Britain will host a summit on Sunday, reportedly involving over a dozen European leaders including France, Germany and Italy, to report back on his Thursday White House meeting with United States President Donald Trump. The only message he can deliver is one Europe’s …
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Britain’s Labour government is finalising massive public spending cuts to pay for an increase in military spending. On Monday Bloomberg reported, “Some UK government departments are bracing for budget cuts of as much as 11% as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer comes under mounting pressure to plow more money into …
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The protest at the Labour’s Party congress in Liverpool this weekend highlights the fact that the struggle against the Gaza genocide in Britain now centres on a political struggle against Keir Starmer’s government. The essential question posed is how such a struggle must be waged, on what programme and through …
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