Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
Retraining not reoffending
PHIL BEADLE speaks to former prisoners who found a new start in life thanks to an innovative programme in the prison gym
A member of staff at Maghaberry Prison
Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
BRITISH political life in the current moment appears filled with storybook villains and villainesses: a parade of self-interested pantomime dames and asset-strippers.
Thankfully, though, in places people know little about, heroes and heroines also exist, working tirelessly for others.
One such hero is Arthur Furness. Along with accompanying heroines Megan Knowleden and Emma Tustin, Furness, a lecturer at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College, set out to find out why rates of reoffending are so high, why those who have been incarcerated often end up back in the same place. They’ve come up with a solution.
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