Geography Archives: United Kingdom

The UK government has firmly rejected this Monday Jamaica’s demand for financial reparations for its role in the transatlantic slave trade, as a Jamaican delegation formally requested £10 billion in compensation from King Charles III.

Keir Starmer learned this lesson the hard way. Now, it’s Andy Burnham’s turn.

I was genuinely surprised by the Starmer regime’s refusal to state that the Israeli boarding of the Global Sumud flotilla on the High Seas was illegal.

The Trump administration’s intent comes amid concerns over the future of the strategically important Diego Garcia military base and Britain’s proposed transfer of sovereignty to Mauritius.

Billy Saas and Rob Hawkes speak with Sheridan Kates, ecological economist, activist and, at present, Green Party candidate for Islington Council in North London in the May 2026 local election. In her academic and political work, Sheridan rejects both the economics and the language of austerity, and instead prioritises democratic, inclusive, and participatory institution building.

From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Starmer has followed a trajectory of career-enhancing ignorance. He knows far more than he lets on. It’s the reason, after all, why he was knighted.

Palestine Action, a direct-action group protesting against Israeli war crimes, was proscribed by the British government in July 2025.

Jeremy Corbyn has tabled parliamentary bill that would require parliament’s approval for foreign use of British military bases.

By allowing U.S. forces to use British bases to bomb Iran, Keir Starmer is echoing Tony Blair’s obedience to Washington—dragging Britain into yet another criminal war.

When nations with well-resourced intelligence gathering services, like the United Kingdom and Australia, choose to shield their citizens from the very real impacts of planetary warming and ecological disruption, they risk aligning themselves with climate denialism efforts like those occurring in the United States, such as current National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard’s decision to excise any mention of climate change from the spy community’s most recent Annual Threat Assessment.

As a key pro-Israel powerbroker, Peter Mandelson and his protégé toppled Jeremy Corbyn, installed Keir Starmer, and reshaped Labour. Now his arrest threatens to shake British politics to its core.

U.S. President Donald Trump withdraws support for the Chagos Islands agreement as tensions grow over potential U.S. use of Diego Garcia and RAF Fairford in strikes on Iran.

Experts warn that wealthy political donors and cash-for-access scandals are eroding democratic institutions and public trust in the U.S. and UK.

Campaigners told The Electronic Intifada on Wednesday that the result was a “monumental” and “total” victory.

The government’s case for abolishing most jury trials doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, argues KIM JOHNSON MP–and it must be stopped before it does lasting damage to democracy

YOUR Party’s founding conference brought thousands of people to Liverpool at the weekend.

According to a report in the Times of India (November 23), the United States has asked European countries to restrict immigration in order to preserve “Western Civilization.” Many in the Third World would find the term “Western Civilization” laughable, especially if it is used in the sense of denoting something precious and worth preserving. The atrocities […]

Ahead of her talk at TWT, Zarah Sultana argues that we must ensure that initiatives like Your Party are inclusive projects to which the whole Left can contribute—and use them to take the socialist struggle onto the streets.

A BOLD new project has been recently announced by a strong group of UK universities supported by the Wellcome Trust, which has more than £1 billion in funds.

As Labour embraces anti-migrant rhetoric, Jeremy Corbyn argues that the government is demonizing vulnerable people to distract from its domestic failures.