By waging an all-out war not only on his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, but on the left and its ideas, Starmer has strangled hope of change in a time of crisis. In the process, he risks driving voters towards right-wing authoritarians.

The Twitter Files have lifted the lid on a secret alliance between Silicon Valley, intelligence agencies and the political establishment.

The US said it wanted to free Syrians from a tyrant. Then it was willing to let them die of cold and hunger. The truth: for the West, Syria is simply about power.

Increasingly, the Ukraine war looks like a feature – rather than a bug – of Washington’s post-Cold War planning.

In slapping down an MP for decrying Israel’s new government, the Labour leader has left supporters of Palestinian rights politically homeless.

Nearly a year after Russia’s invasion, the western narrative of an ‘unprovoked’ attack has become impossible to sustain.

By defying Netanyahu and visiting Al-Aqsa, Itamar Ben-Gvir showed he has the whip hand in Israel’s new ultra-right government. He has plenty more provocations up his sleeve to set the region alight.

Jewish Power now has dozens of ways to inflame Palestinians into all-out confrontation. A third intifada has never felt closer.

What Israel’s generals are really worried about is how little will change when two ultra-nationalist, religious settlers like Ben Gvir and Smotrich are put in charge of the occupation.

The Holocaust serves, paradoxically, as an alibi for Europeans to assume they are morally superior to others, as the cancellation by Germany of an arts prize to Caryl Churchill shows.

Hidden by the grand declarations at Cop27 this week is the fact that Europe has made itself a hostage of transnational energy corporations – and will have to pay out astronomical damages to tackle the climate emergency

In a world of self-inflicted collapse, Vladimir Putin is no more insane than his western counterparts. The only sane people are those trying to wake up everyone else, whether by glueing their hands to the road, climbing bridges or hurling soup at paintings.

Itamar Ben Gvir is no aberration. He is just the latest, ugliest incarnation of a Jewish supremacism that has long dominated Israeli politics.

Stark contradictions in West’s treatment of the Ukraine war and the occupation and siege of Palestine should serve as a wake-up call.

Starmer has been tamed like a circus lion, whipped into line by the establishment. Those pressures won’t lift once he is in government. They will intensify.

The Labour leader has made a dirty word of socialism and shown that his own word counts for nothing. A backlash is coming.

The same arrogant, self-righteous posturing from the West that fuelled the Ukraine war is now plunging Europe into recession.

Black suits, hushed tones, an air of reverence conceal the panic of an establishment that has just lost the main vehicle for justifying its privilege.

Journalists aren’t too deferential and timid, as former Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis claims. They are only too ready to bare their teeth when it serves establishment interests.