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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Those who seek radical change must be aware that the ruling class that has used violence and coercion to control the working people of Britain for centuries, says NICOLAS LALAGUNA
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
ROYAL weddings are an interesting time. They give people the chance to think about how they feel about entitlement and privilege.
If one can shut out the incessant clamour of the mainstream media’s sycophantic mass hysteria, we can take these sorts of opportunities to analyse and discuss exactly what kind of state we live in.
For me, this couldn’t have come at a more appropriate time. In the lead-up to the recent local elections I was talking to a student studying A-level politics about exactly this question.
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