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While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
2017 – a year of elections, new brooms and sausage rolls
NATHAN AKEHURST casts an eye back at the year just gone
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
We have the alternative economics, histories of our struggles and the confidence to change the world
General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
I BEGAN writing this column while London was grinding to a halt under a Siberian 0.5cm of snow. I didn’t think it worth complaining too much. It’s another excuse to stay in and drink more and, with terror attacks literally more frequent than snowfall, it’s understandable that gritting has slipped down the council’s priority list.
In any case, Gritney Spears and Brad Grit (the actual names for two northern town hall gritters) may be running low on salt but are probably more prepared for Brexit than David Davis.
There is a distinct challenge in filling a light-hearted Year in Review column when 1) you’re not that funny, 2) you know next to nothing about pop culture because you spend too much time swearing at the Guardian’s comment section and 3) virtually nothing light-hearted has happened this year.
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