As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
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Divisions are opening over the future of Welsh businesses and tourism as Covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased – but has Drakeford managed to get the policy about right, asks TESS DELANEY
People rest after exercise on the beach in hot weather in Swansea, Wales, where some lockdown measures have now been lifted
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the UK government intervenes to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
SEVIM DAGDELEN argues that a legal framework exists for a closure of US and Nato military base in Ramstein
THE fissure that divides Wales is getting much bigger. Within moments of Mark Drakeford announcing new lockdown-lifting measures social media had gone batty.
Wales’s response to the Covid crisis has been one of caution, basing its response on “the science” much more closely, it would seem, than their English counterparts.
The five-mile rule which was enforced a few weeks ago has unofficially been relaxed since, with words like “ballpark” and definitions of “local” being thrown around.
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