From burning-car decoys in Stockholm to speedboat getaways in Bergen, a string of audacious museum heists across Europe has targeted one thing alone: Chinese antiquities looted during the Opium Wars. Is this organized crime, a James Bond–worthy state operation, or the long-overdue reclamation of a stolen heritage?

By Raymond O’Connell

Dianne Kirby examines how Palestine has become the flashpoint exposing a deeper crisis: the rise of a transnational ruling class in which assertive Zionist elements wield disproportionate power, while AI surveillance giants like Palantir replace finance as capitalism’s new ideological spearhead. Drawing on Kees van der Pijl’s class analysis, the article connects Gaza’s genocide, criminalised protest, and “technofascist” data empires to reveal who really benefits from the collapse of sovereign equality between states.

W. Owl writes for Unity: a chilling ITV drama exposes how London taxi driver John Worboys was able to drug and assault over 100 women while police dismissed victims, botched investigations, and even suggested the women were to blame. With Northern Ireland now ranked among the most dangerous places for women in Western Europe and offenders walking free with suspended sentences, this article asks how much longer the legal system can keep failing survivors.

When Sweden spent over a decade hunting Soviet submarines in its waters, the truth turned out to be far stranger than anyone imagined, raising serious questions about Ireland’s new €60 million sonar splurge. Meanwhile, 2,000 Limerick workers could lose their livelihoods as MEPs push to close a sanctions loophole on a Russian-owned alumina plant, exposing the human cost of the EU’s escalating proxy war.

Eviction notices have surged 50% under the government’s new rental rules, child homelessness has jumped 19%, and construction is slowing, yet Taoiseach Martin insists Fianna Fáil “made a difference” on housing. Eoin Ó Murchú dismantles the myth that the market can solve Ireland’s housing crisis, arguing that only a return to direct state-built social housing can rescue a generation trapped between vulture funds, speculators, and shrinking “dog box” homes.

By Eoin Ó Murchú

As Britain’s monarchy stages lavish ceremonies for Trump while Gaza burns and British citizens are seized in international waters, Dianne Kirby asks what the “special relationship” actually delivers for anyone outside the Epstein-adjacent elite, beyond Atlanticist servility, imperial nostalgia, and the moral cost of Britain’s silence on genocide.

After twenty years in her family home, Caitríona and her three-year-old grandson Cillian were forcibly removed at dawn by armed PSNI officers and masked men in an eviction CATU opposed as both illegal and morally indefensible. Geraldine Kelly writes on how the Housing Executive’s refusal to grant succession has added another family to a 50,000-strong waiting list.

Press freedom is under unprecedented assault worldwide, with 128 journalists killed in 2025 alone and AI-powered surveillance now being used in Gaza to track and target reporters as legitimate war casualties. From Belfast newsrooms spied on by police using Israeli technology to the £5.5m PSNI contract raising alarm bells, Lynda Walker writes how the machinery of repression is closer to home than you think.