As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
Morbid symptoms – the last days of the Johnson regime and ‘Old Corruption’
Johnson and his cronyism has sunk politics to new levels of depravity, says KEITH FLETT
JAMMY: Johnson is reported to be looking to write a column for
the Daily Mail
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
BORIS JOHNSON resigned as prime minister on July 7 after only narrowly winning a confidence vote of Tory MPs. At that point he could have left office, appointed a caretaker deputy, and gone on holiday.
Instead while Johnson has certainly gone on holiday — several of them — he has remained in post, drawing his prime ministerial salary and using the PM’s country house, Chequers.
About the cost-of-living crisis he has done precisely nothing. He did, however, find time to make yet another visit to Kiev and promise further taxpayers’ money to continue the war there.
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