1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (81+ words) 1 I must confess to Luddite impulses on the AI question. More war, escalating authoritarianism, a deepening cost of living crisis " the left faces big challenges. But resistance is also growing. Counterfire has been at the heart of the mass movements…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago  (165+ words) This week250 years ago, Adam Smith publishedAnInquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" and invented economics. Made up of five "books" over 1000 pages, the Wealth of Nations is really the "old testament bible" of classical political economy,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (412+ words) The Bride! is a reimagined version of the 1935 film The Bride of Frankenstein which replaces the scarcely seen bride in the original film with a powerful, passionate and formidable reinvigorated bride portrayed phenomenally by Jessie Buckley. The film begins with…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (536+ words) Wuthering Heights review: New depths of awfulness'Counterfire Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights is a weak adaptation that retains nothing of the original novel's haunting bleakness, writes Terina Hine If Emerald Fennell's big-budget Wuthering Heights wins an award it should be for…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (242+ words) Regrettably, this pubescent excitement at the prospect of discovering new horizons of intellectual endeavour is often doused in cold water from day one as undergraduates find themselves in seminars wading through seemingly pedantic and trivial discussions about terminology, rather than…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (511+ words) Hersh's reports on the US military's massacre at My Lai during the Vietnam War, his revelations of systematic torture by US troops at Abu Ghraib in Iraq after 2003 and his 1977 expose of corruption at the giant multinational Gulf & Western are…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (240+ words) In the last few days, West Midlands Police has come under attack from politicians and large sections of the media establishment over its decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from attending a football match in Birmingham last November. Under…...

3+ mon, 3+ hour ago  (737+ words) Christmas is a time for comedy specials, and this year has produced a lulu: the social-media "debate" over Gabriel Rockhill"s book Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?[1] A lot of the spat on social media has to do…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (328+ words) 1955, the first European Cup. Chelsea, the First Division champions, are banned from entering by the'FA, the competition is not considered as in the best interests of English football. The competition itself is a'knockout competition, two legs home and away, league…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (750+ words) Partisans: A Graphic History of Anti-Fascist Resistance " review'Counterfire A graphic history of the Partisan resistance in World War II provides a vivid, harrowing and valuable reminder of their crucial struggles, finds Eilidh Stewart In every territory occupied by the Nazis…...