SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
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Net-zero, not-zero and ground-zero
It may feel like Boris Johnson can do no wrong and Labour are determined to slip quietly into the night — but the government's promises on climate change are their achilles heel. We must hold them to account with a radical alternative, writes ALAN SIMPSON
Wind turbines, a source of renewable energy, sticking out through low-lying clouds over Lancashire
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime
by Dr David Lowry, Institute for Resource and Security Studies
This strike is about pay and conditions, says CAMERON HARRISON – but it also shows workers have the power to disrupt the mightiest war machine on Earth
WHAT a mess we are in. Labour loses the Hartlepool by-election with a 16 per cent swing to the Tories. A new north-south divide is opening up.
With the exception of London, Labour no longer holds the hearts and minds of its conventional heartlands. So much for new leadership, new vision. What on Earth is going on?
Ground zero: Boris Johnson gets caught out lying again. Those queuing for the sales in Primark clothing stores just shrug their shoulders. Nothing new there. Johnson is a “Jack the lad” with only an occasional (and entirely accidental) association with the truth. If they had a wish, those outside Primark would probably just want the queue to move faster.
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