JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US
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Iain Duncan Smith’s knighthood in historical perspective
The honours system has long been discredited with dodgy and doubtful appointments, says KEITH FLETT
Austerity architect Iain Duncan Smith
SOPHIE BOLT makes an urgent case for comprehensive nuclear disarmament
Today Coventry’s Hiroshima Day Remembrance marks 80 years since the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Statement from Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee of Peace and Reconciliation
All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionised in a historic victory for labour, says RIO YAMAT
Letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper – to be delivered by a delegation of Jews to Downing Street today
Laughter has always been how workers cope and fight back, but university-educated union reps now scold members for calling bosses ‘money-grabbing bastards’ and label everyday humour ‘problematic’ — this needs to be stopped, writes MARK JONES
AT A mundane level the knighthood for Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith in the new year’s honours should not be a surprise.
The honours list has to go through a bureaucratic approval process after ministers make their recommendations.
In all likelihood Duncan Smith’s name appeared on the list on the assumption that he would lose his parliamentary seat at the December 12 election. Unfortunately he narrowly avoided doing so to an excellent Labour candidate.
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