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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Coronavirus in the developing world and the flaws of pandemic bonds
The real purpose of pandemic bonds is a thinly disguised money-spinning enterprise for international capital, writes JULIAN JONES
Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums, during lockdown
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
THE worst effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have so far been limited to developed or relatively developed nations.
But as the spread of the disease continues at breakneck speed, questions have begun to emerge about the capacity of healthcare systems to cope with the outbreaks.
The numbers are staggering and medical equipment to deal with the respiratory effects caused by the virus is in short supply, even in the most advanced countries.
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