TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
Badenoch’s down-punching is now targeting the autistic
The dangerous rhetoric around neurodiversity from the Conservative leadership candidate threatens hard-won protections and social progress, writes CAILEAN McBRIDE
VICTIM BLAMING: Kemi Badenoch has never met a disadvantaged group she didn’t want to scapegoat
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
EMAN ABU ZAYED reminisces about the perilous time her family and neighbours endured in northern Gaza and how they were forced, in fear of their lives, to flee south
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
AS THE ongoing carnival of self-implosion that is the Tory leadership contest approaches its bewildering conclusion, no-one should be surprised that the final two contenders are ramping up the rhetoric, presumably to appeal to the most extreme wings of the party membership, if such a thing dare be imagined at this point.
Similarly, it should probably come as no surprise that of the two, it is Kemi Badenoch who has taken the more extreme position. While her rival, Robert Jenrick, is no slouch in the currently vogueish culture wars, he’s a mere armchair general compared to Badenoch’s battle-scarred veteran and this was yet again made apparent last week.
This time, Badenoch took a break from her usual victims — migrants, pro-Palestine protesters and so on — to punch down on another minority, that of the autistic community.
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