A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
Breaking the old boys’ network
When you look at their backgrounds, is it any surprise that Johnson and Cummings hold the lives of the working class in such little value, asks ROBERT POOLE
WAS THERE ever a better time than now to abolish Eton and its ilk?
Yet again, we’re seeing another private school alumnus breaking the rules and having his back covered by someone from the old boys’ network.
Old boy of the 600-year-old Durham School Dominic Cummings, and senior adviser to Old Etonian Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, appeared on TV this week to explain why he broke lockdown.
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