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Donald Trump’s visit will not be the lovefest May had hoped it would be
The demonstration against the US President on Friday is also against the Tories, writes LINDSEY GERMAN
The deflated balloon of baby Donald Trump which will float above London during the President's visit to the capital on Friday
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE
White racist rioting has many an infamous precedent in Britain, writes DAVID HORSLEY
The SNP might dissemble over the meaning of ‘nationalism,’ but it can’t disguise the fact that it is no left-wing party, says ELAINE SMITH
Castro became one of the first leaders to denounce Israeli genocide against Palestinians at the UN, comparing zionist persecution to Nazi crimes while Cuba trained PLO cadres and awarded Arafat state honours, writes PABLO MERIGUET
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
THERESA MAY must see this weekend as a perfect storm. She is under attack from the Brexit wing of her party, has suffered two major ministerial resignations, has a Nato summit where Donald Trump looks set to insult his so-called allies, then she is hosting his visit to Britain which will be met with mass protests, and then he is off to a Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. What could possibly go wrong?
Instead of the triumphant right-wing lovefest that May had in mind when she invited Trump for a state visit back in January 2017, this downgraded trip is likely to be a headache for her — just at a time when, once again, she is shown as unable to enforce her will in her own government or in her own party. This in turn raises existential questions.
Despite the way in which May and her boosters in the media try to pretend that nothing really important has happened, the cabinet is on the rocks, having lost some of its major figures in the past months.
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