The UK Prime Minister may have the regal touch in northern England, but he’s been wrong-footed on the constitutional challenges posed by the Celtic Alliance of first ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, argues KENNY MacASKILL
Crisis for Johnson not necessarily a crisis for the Tory Party
DIANE ABBOTT MP warns that if the current PM is replaced, the next leader will most likely have an even worse stance on effective Covid suppression as right-wing anti-lockdown factions now rule the Conservative roost
NEIRLAY ANDRADE, a member of the Communist Party of Venezuela’s political committee, outlines her party’s position on the crisis facing the country
A look at Taylor Wimpey’s accounts shows why Labour’s market-led housing strategy won’t deliver more, cheaper homes, as promised, says SOLOMON HUGHES
DAVID HORSLEY remembers the remarkable life and death of US black revolutionary George Jackson, whose politically passionate prison letters were published as Soledad Brother
Cuban trade union federation CTC leader OSNAY MIGUEL COLINA speaks to Ben Chacko about life and work under a crippling US siege
A part of the British empire’s network of slavery, today the Caribbean island of Nevis faces a new form of exploitation in the form of crypto-colonialism, CLAUDIA WEBBE writes
Challenges from the unscrupulous misuse of AI to steal actors’ voice and physical likenesses is being met with a firm union response, writes LYNDA ROOKE
WHEN you come under pressure in politics there are essentially two ways out of the crisis. You abandon what you were doing and go over to your critics, or you tough it out and stick to your beliefs.
To no-one’s great surprise Boris Johnson has chosen the coward’s way out and adopted the main agenda of Tory critics on his right. As scientists have warned, this risks a resurgence of the number of omicron cases in this country. This is while new deaths are still on the rise.
Many great crimes have been committed in high office. But this is an extraordinary case of a Prime Minister who is willing to let people die in even greater numbers simply to save his own skin. Greater self-love has no man than to lay down the lives of others to save himself.
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