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 won’t be long before the axe falls on the poor – again
When the immediate crisis has faded the Tories will be putting the cost onto the shoulders of everyone below them, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Birmingham City Council staff prepare the first food parcels to be distributed to the city’s vulnerable population and (left) Chancellor Rishi Sunak
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
WHO will pay for the coronavirus crisis? Already there is pressure that the lowest paid should get even less money to pay for all the emergency funding: the pressure is coming from mainstream corporate and business-oriented Establishment figures.
We haven’t seen a big mobilisation by the political right demanding the poor shoulder the burden, but we surely will.
You might think the coronavirus crisis shows up all the bad things about austerity Britain — the underfunded public services, the danger of zero-hours employment and private rentals.
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