Washington’s inability to subjugate Iran is an example of how it is trying to preserve a regional order that no longer exists, argues RAMZY BAROUD
Education fightback: Vote for action to tackle the school cuts crisis
Now is our chance to take action over pay and school funding, argues GAWAIN LITTLE
DISGRACEFUL: Too many kids arrive at school hungry in Tory Britain
US financial instability is exposing the limits of a dollar-dominated global economy — and giving the Global South a historic chance to build an alternative, says MURAD QURESHI
DOUG NICHOLLS says the parasitic finance markets must be challenged or another British government could be toppled
The late country singer’s Imagination Library has put hundreds of millions of books into children’s hands. We should build on that legacy by defending the libraries at the heart of our communities, says BRENDA AITCHISON
Deprivation is a fundamental factor in criminal behaviour that must be addressed but, KENNY MacASKILL argues, there needs to a major rethink in sentencing to tackle overcrowding
MML director MEIRIAN JUMP outlines the recently refreshed library’s busy autumn schedule that ranges from book sales, archival exploration, community work with online education and the ever popular site tours
TONY BURKE surveys the shifting political landscape and the challenges Labour needs to address if it is to prevail in the 2028 federal elections
IT IS a sign of the state of Tory Britain in 2022 that 90 per cent of schools will face a real-terms cut to their budget next year.
Per pupil funding will suffer a real-terms cut of £147. For a school of 1,500 students, this equates to losing over £200,000 annually.
On top of historic real-terms cuts, which have seen school spending power reduced by £1.3bn, or 2.9 per cent, since 2015-16, this will have a disastrous effect on our children’s education.
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