A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
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Escaping The Matrix: the search for a sustainable future
ALAN SIMPSON laments the historic failure of Cop27 and the increasing criminalisation of climate activism as all parties ignore the simple ways out of the crisis we face
ROAD TO PROGRESS: Protesters block roads outside Parliament in July, calling for state support for insulation schemes. Labour programmes for tackling cold homes were all ditched by the Tories post-2010
Despite new European arrests, the evidence presented so far fails to explain the sabotage of the undersea pipelines – and veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s allegations of US responsibility cannot be easily dismissed, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MAT COWARD tells the story of the eccentric founder of a short-lived but striking experiment in ‘vital democracy,’ who became best known for giving away his estate to the nation
As figures from Tucker Carlson to Nigel Farage flirt with neofascist rhetoric and mainstream leaders edge toward authoritarianism through war and repression, the conditions that once nurtured Hitlerism re-emerge — yet anti-war and anti-imperialist sentiments are also burgeoning anew, writes ANDREW MURRAY
As President Javier Milei is set to unveil a radical rollback of Argentina’s labour laws, unions warn of an unprecedented assault on workers’ rights, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG
FEW people would ever mistake the former health minister Matt Hancock for Keanu Reeves. However, his involvement in the I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here TV series has become almost as mind-bending as the plot of The Matrix.
Having discharged care home patients from hospitals without any pre-screening for Covid, Hancock deserves having slurry and insects poured over him. Those who suffered the bereavement and trauma that followed might wish this to continue indefinitely. But there are wider issues about Britain’s descent into dystopian politics that the game show should not distract from.
Britain’s care system remains massively overstretched and under-resourced; the NHS even more so. The decision of NHS nursing staff to go on strike is unprecedented. It reflects the desperation of those who held other’s lives together throughout the Covid pandemic, but who are now leaving or retiring early in droves through sheer exhaustion and overwork.
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