Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
I’M writing this on the first day of winter at about half past three in the afternoon. It’s twilight and it is chilly, damp and almost dark.
High overhead I hear the honking sound of a skein of geese heading home to the safety of the ancient canal reservoir that is the centre of the large country park close to my home.
The Odyssey is a tale of evasions and half-truths; this reflects the effects of traumatic ‘moral injury’ common to war veterans, suggests STEPHAN BLUM
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
If true, the photo’s history is a damning indictment of the systematic exploitation of non-Western journalists by Western media organisations – a pattern that persists today, posit KATE CANTRELL and ALISON BEDFORD



