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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Lions, donkeys and a Suffolk Anglo-Saxon king
PETER FROST introduces the man responsible for Britain’s greatest-ever archaeological discovery but who got no credit for it
(Left to right) Archaelogist Basil Brown, who led the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon burial mound at Sutton Hoo; a replica of the Sutton Hoo helmet, widely believed to have belonged to King Raedwald, and the 1939 excavation of a burial ship from an Anglo-Saxon burial mound at Sutton Hoo
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
THE minor but pushy aristocracy of Britain are a snobby lot who believe they have some God-given right to rule the land.
One way they try to enshrine that right is by sending their male children — and today females too — to schools where they can learn to spout a few phrases of Latin and adopt an enormous, if totally unjustified, self-confidence.
(Who can he mean? Can’t think of anybody in an important position today who exhibits that particular bundle of characteristics, can you?)
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