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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It’s not just climate change causing rivers to burst their banks
On his own doorstep PETER FROST asks who is looking after our rivers that are bursting their banks again this winter
FORCE OF NATURE: Fields are flooded by river Avon near Harbridge in Hampshire
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
EVEN before the arrival of storm Christoph it’s been a bit wet here in my little corner of Northamptonshire. We’ve had almost constant heavy rain or freezing fog and even a light dusting or two of snow.
At Billing Aquadrome, a huge static caravan park sited among lakes that feed the young river Nene, flood levels reached 5ft (1.5m) on Christmas Eve. Many people had chosen to spend Christmas and New Year in their holiday caravans and the park was almost full.
When water levels rose and flooded many of the holiday homes over a thousand people had to find emergency accommodation in local hotels or with friends.
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