Israel and the US talk as if they’ve won a victory, but the reality is that world opinion has turned decisively against the Israeli regime, says RAMZY BAROUD
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Could Covid-19 bring an end to the privatisation of our NHS?
The hated Health and Social Care Act has effectively been suspended, and there’s huge recognition that support staff should be brought back in-house. So can the ‘competitive health market’ now be ditched once and for all? asks JOHN LISTER
SOLOMON HUGHES finds one-time Cameron-centrist EU fans now promote vicious anti-migrant rhetoric in their bid to get attention for their ailing party
From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
Farage and other Reform-ers keep pointing to Dubai’s immigration policy – but there migrants make up most of the population and do all the work without any rights, muses SOLOMON HUGHES
Modi has rolled out the carpet for the Taliban in New Delhi — and we shouldn’t be surprised. They have more in common than you might think, argues Bhabani Shankar Nayak
HUGH LANNING says there is no path to peace without dismantling Israel’s control over Palestinian land, lives and resources
BORIS JOHNSON’S five-minute broadcast on leaving hospital, in which he enthused about the NHS as the “beating heart of the nation” and named two overseas nurses who he believed had saved his life, might have been a pivotal moment.
It might yet prove to be the moment where the right-wing Cabinet of a Tory government was persuaded to pull back from the process of running down the NHS.
Indeed the entire coronavirus pandemic and resultant crisis facing every major country in the world has been a wake-up call for ministers, who have been forced to put their previous financial model and restructuring of the NHS on the back burner — or conceivably discard previous ambitions altogether.
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