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PETER FROST has filled in what might be the last ever census form but he is looking at a wider count
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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
DID you do your duty of the decade and fill in your census last Sunday? You won’t of course if you live in Scotland where, because of the pandemic, the census has been delayed for a year.
The census is a survey that has happened every 10 years and gives us a picture of all the people and households in Britain.
It is likely that the March 2022 census may be the last one ever for the ironic reason that the government collects all the information it needs from the many other sources of data it gathers on every one of us in normal day-to-day contacts.
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