New research into mutations in sperm helps us better understand why they occur, while debunking a few myths in the process, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
No space for complacency after Patriotic Alternative resisted in Cornwall
Even after two demos against a hotel housing migrants were comfortably outnumbered, we have to look at how dangerous the appeal of the hard right is in our poverty-stricken areas, writes DAWN EVANS
Rumours and allegations of sexual offences connected to migrant housing schemes are exploited to recruit to far-right demonstrations
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports from the one of 2,700 protests against the Trump government’s power grabs, on a day when seven million people defied fear-mongering in a outpouring of joy and hope in what might be the biggest protest in US history
Our trust makes 3,200 home visits caring for 227 patients despite 198 Israeli checkpoints around Bethlehem; this compassion which transcends boundaries has lessons for the debate on end-of-life care in Britain too, writes FATHER GEOFF BOTTOMS
There is no chance of defending and renewing an NHS which is still savagely undermined by having to pay mark-ups of up to 23,000 per cent to Big Pharma — let’s take control of pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution, writes DREW GILCHRIST
A MONTH or so ago, Establishment figures such as Greg Dyke and Baroness Patience Wheatcroft responded to the Gary Lineker debacle by calling out the BBC for its glaring double standards and hypocrisy and for breaking its guidance on impartiality — something the socialist left has been yelling about, and being ignored over, for decades.
On Radio 4’s Today programme on March 11, Baroness Wheatcroft accused the BBC of allowing the “rabid right-wing” rhetoric of the Tory-supporting press to go unchallenged.
When economically wealthy and socially secure people such as Lineker, Dyke and Wheatcroft are moved to point out fascistic moves made within governments and media institutions, we know we are in a very bad place.
But it is not so easy for ordinary people on low or average incomes to be able to spend time analysing and reflecting on the political machinations of the Establishment. They are at the sharp end of social disintegration — trying to cope with the depletion of local health and care services, the homelessness crisis and having to juggle the heat-or-eat dilemma.
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CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
