Social media and public meetings are filling in what the mainstream ignores, to Labour’s advantage, while an informal climate alliance is isolating the Tories.
Violent extremism, uprisings from Chile to Lebanon – and far-right populism too – are ‘revolts from the margins’ fuelled by anger at elites.
Supporters of the brutal movement are walking out of prison camps in Syria, but it’s the propaganda bonus that may be most significant.
The Greenham Common peace camp and other 1980s anti-nuclear activists made a real difference – now a stronger tide is with the climate protestors.
Long-term political consequences could be even more serious for the US and its allies than the uselessness of their defence systems.
All the billions Saudi Arabia has spent on military hardware, plus a major US and UK military presence, couldn’t stop the drones and missiles.
A young follower sees Western policy recruiting the dispossessed from West Africa to India, in the latest of a series imagined by Paul Rogers.
Is it 2003 all over again – but with Iran and Iraq on the same side this time?
ISIS is winning support, gaining territory and launching attacks far and wide, while western military strategy breeds resentment and rage.
Are Boris and Donald the new Blair and Bush? Movements of the UK’s handful of destroyers suggest they might be.
Few in the west know about the war fought on their behalf in Syria and Iraq. But they may come to know the rage that 60,000 dead have inspired.
In the 1980s Iran learned its frigates were no match for the US Navy. But its many small, nimble attack craft can worry tankers and warships alike.
