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Pomposity and smugness set to stay
A Week in Politics with Paddy McGuffin
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
As tensions escalate over Iran, CAROL MOCHAN MSP argues that Britain must finally learn from the disastrous legacy of Iraq and choose diplomacy over another catastrophic conflict
While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER
The mass killing of Iranian schoolgirls should have dominated global headlines. Instead it became another example of how civilians — especially women and children — are targeted in war, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
SOME things never cease to amaze your humble scribe, mainly the depths of crass self-promotion and smugness that our politicians and so-called celebrities will sink to.
Just when you think they must have reached the pinnacle of bloated self-importance and pomposity, they raise the stakes even higher — normally in the name of “charidee.”
The current example is the frankly pathetic “ice-bucket challenge” whereby the great and not-so-good nominate one another to film themselves dunk a pail of freezing water over their heads with “hilarious” consequences.
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