Channel 4’s Dirty Business shows why private companies cannot be trusted with vital services like water, says PAUL DONOVAN
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Callous Tory cuts leaving ever-growing numbers on the streets
The homelessness scandal is deepening and a national disgrace, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Washington’s unprecedented capture of the Venezuelan president was meant to demonstrate US power — but instead it has galvanised the Bolivarian movement and exposed the limits of the regime change agenda, argue ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY
With our ruling class struggling to secure a new vehicle for power and the disintegration of the traditional party system, a volatile new chapter is opening, sharpened by war, austerity and electoral distortion, argues NICK WRIGHT
TONY FOX reports from a commemoration of the legendary Battle of Jarama in which four Stockton-on-Tees volunteers fell
Does widespread and uncontrolled use of AI change our relationship with scientific meaning? Or with each other? ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
SOME 135,000 children will be homeless this Christmas, according to research by the housing charity Shelter, which calculates that another child becomes homeless in Britain every eight minutes.
Official figures also show that the number of people sleeping on our streets has more than doubled since 2010 to almost 5,000 people on any given night.
Shockingly, and in a stark illustration of Tory Britain today, the number of people dying homeless has risen by more than half in the last five years to 726 last year.
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