HUGH LANNING says there is no path to peace without dismantling Israel’s control over Palestinian land, lives and resources
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Cop29: When world leaders failed the planet
Undaunted by Big Oil success, ALAN SIMPSON looks at alternatives to lack of courage and imagination stifling the Labour government and it policies
STANDS TO REASON: Climate change protest in Whitehall, central London in October 2022
CJ ATKINS reports on the stand that saw Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif hauled out of Israel’s parliament during Donald Trump’s vainglorious address
ROGER McKENZIE argues that Western powers can see the beginning of the end in the rise of the global South — and racist reactions are kicking in
The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY
Taking a brief look at who the US president surrounds himself with reveals a team dedicated to the complete erasure of Palestine, not justice and civil rights for its people, writes TERRY HANSEN
As the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women begins in Beijing, it’s clear that China has fulfilled its commitments set 30 years ago and delivered amazing progress in women's education and equality, writes YU BOKUN
THEY did their best — the climate activists, NGOs, environmental scientists, most of the delegates and civil servants — but it wasn’t enough. Big Oil won the day.
From the Azerbaijani hosts to the flock of corporate lobbyists, the determination to live in denial of today’s climate roller coaster again swept aside all objections from the world outside.
The need for trillions of dollars going into a “repair and damage” fund was replaced by the promise of millions. And even then, the track record of delivering climate finance has always fallen well short of the promises.
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