The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
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PETER FROST looks back at the state of wildlife after that most remarkable year 2020
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
THE coronavirus pandemic devastated Britain in many different ways.
We’ve mourned tens of thousands of deaths, of course. Many families lost loved ones far too early.
For Prime Minister Boris Johnson and so many other politicians worldwide it sometimes seemed that the biggest disaster was the decline in the GDP.
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