by Ian SinclairMorning Star27 May 2026 THOUGH it feels largely forgotten today, the creation of the Climate Change Committee (CCC) in 2008 was a huge victory for the climate movement. It was one of the key parts of the Climate Change Act (CCA), won by the Big Ask campaign led by Friends of the Earth. [ ]
by Ian SinclairMorning Star1 May 2026 ON November 27 last year ten of the UK’s leading experts gave a National Emergency Briefing in Westminster to an invited audience of more than 1,200 people, including politicians and prominent members of the business, cultural, media and faith communities. The aim? “To ensure that both the public and [ ]
by Ian SinclairMorning Star21 April 2026 THE Commons Preservation Society, Epping Forest in the 1870s, the 1932 Kinder Scout trespass — Morning Star readers will know England has a rich tradition of popular struggle to increase public access to the countryside. This inspiring, often moving new documentary focuses on the Right to Roam campaign, founded in 2020 by [ ]
by Ian SinclairMorning Star9 April 2026 WITH the horror of the war on Iran dominating headlines since late February, it feels a long time ago that US President Donald Trump claimed in January that Nato, and therefore Britain, sent “some troops” to Afghanistan but “stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.” The response [ ]
by Ian SinclairMorning Star19 March 2026 WE are all being taken for mugs. Over the last couple of weeks the mainstream liberal media has been gaslighting the British public about Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the war on Iran. This was best summed up by Daily Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire, who recently asserted on ITV’s Good [ ]
by Ian SinclairMorning Star7 March 2026 “Omission is the most powerful form of lie”. Widely attributed to George Orwell, recent news stories demonstrate the continuing relevance of this quote for understanding media performance. In October last year, the Morning Star was one of the few UK news outlets to report some hugely positive news from [ ]
by Ian SinclairMorning Star26 February 2026 “I BEGAN writing this book in a moment of rage” is not your typical first line from a senior, highly respected academic at the heart of imperial power. Marc Lynch, Professor of Political Science and Director of Middle East Studies at The George Washington University, is referring to his [ ]
by Ian SinclairMorning Star23 December 2025 Twelve years ago something absolutely extraordinary happened. Something that should be commemorated every year by the British left. On January 2 2014 the British musician PJ Harvey guest edited the BBC Today Programme, as part of their annual shake-up of their schedule which hands the reins of the flagship morning [ ]
by Ian SinclairMorning Star24 November 2025 We need to talk about the consultancy work many academics undertake for governments and corporations. We need to talk about this because it’s the dirty secret of policy-focussed academia that no one mentions publicly, even though it raises huge questions about academic independence and integrity, and the ability of [ ]
by Ian SinclairMorning Star2 October 2025 IN AUGUST, Sam Altman, the CEO of Open AI, claimed “a kid born today will never be smarter than AI [Artificial Intelligence], ever.” A couple of days before, Demis Hassabis, the head of Google’s DeepMind, told the Guardian “we’ll have something that we could sort of reasonably call AGI [ ]