Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies
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From Global Counsel to Arden, SOLOMON HUGHES finds firms linked to discredited politicians are still calling the shots in Britain
KEVIN COURTNEY explains why Reform UK is no friend to workers or trade unions, but just another party of the super-rich
EMMA DENT COAD explains why she is stepping down from the council after 20 years and how the legacy of the fire still haunts the area
While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
IT’S at times like these that a political commentator, albeit an exceptionally jaded and cynical one such as your scribe, looks around and sees that the majority of the population are, if not in the same boat, then on the same downstream confluence that passes for a river.
Each day the political hack has to sit through interminable bullshit and — if they are given to do so — take a side. This week everybody is in the same situation — voting for a slightly less odious option while holding their nose and trying not to cry from sheer frustration.
As it may have mentioned before, this column is an adherent of the philosophy expounded by legendary parliamentary sketch writer Norman Shrapnel — crazy name, crazy guy — when it comes to politicos, that to meet them “could only serve to dull my hatred.”
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