Fertiliser chaos triggered by Gulf conflict could send prices soaring and leave millions facing devastating hunger, writes DYLAN MURPHY
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The farcical return of the ‘trickle-down’ myth
Truss and Kwarteng are determined to rerun failed free-market policies, but this time taken to new, devastating extremes that will see living standards in Britain slip behind eastern Europe, warns IAN LAVERY MP
Prime Minister Liz Truss on a visit to New York
A surge in futures activity minutes before news of US–Iran talks has led to questions about insider trading and oversight gaps, writes CJ ATKINS
Washington’s response to a downed jet shows a superpower still reaching for overwhelming force even as its wars repeatedly fail, says NICK WRIGHT
With attacks on industry, healthcare and education intensifying, JAMSHID AHMADI warns of a deliberate drive to cripple Iran and calls for urgent global action
Argentinians commemorated the 50th anniversary of the military dictatorship that left 30,000 people killed or ‘disappeared.’ BERT SCHOUWENBURG reports
In Voices of Scotland YANA PETTICREW looks at the crippling deterioration of working-class art provision and support
WHEN announcing her plans to tackle the cost-of-living crisis last week, the new Prime Minister said that she is “willing to be unpopular.”
What she means by this is that she is willing to be unpopular with the ordinary man and woman on the street who she does not have to interact with.
She is not, on the other hand, willing to be unpopular with the bankers who she is lifting the bonus cap of.
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