Washington’s inability to subjugate Iran is an example of how it is trying to preserve a regional order that no longer exists, argues RAMZY BAROUD
Setting out a plan for returning to school
HANK ROBERTS suggests five tests for a safe return to the classroom: retain, remove, restore, rebuild and reinstate
US financial instability is exposing the limits of a dollar-dominated global economy — and giving the Global South a historic chance to build an alternative, says MURAD QURESHI
DOUG NICHOLLS says the parasitic finance markets must be challenged or another British government could be toppled
The late country singer’s Imagination Library has put hundreds of millions of books into children’s hands. We should build on that legacy by defending the libraries at the heart of our communities, says BRENDA AITCHISON
Deprivation is a fundamental factor in criminal behaviour that must be addressed but, KENNY MacASKILL argues, there needs to a major rethink in sentencing to tackle overcrowding
MML director MEIRIAN JUMP outlines the recently refreshed library’s busy autumn schedule that ranges from book sales, archival exploration, community work with online education and the ever popular site tours
TONY BURKE surveys the shifting political landscape and the challenges Labour needs to address if it is to prevail in the 2028 federal elections
BORIS JOHNSON and his government have already failed in their attempt to restart all primary schools on a single common start date of June 1 and with all three chosen groups – reception, year one and year six.
For a safe return, to start with year six would have been better. So would starting it in a test area or areas where the R number (the number of people someone with the virus could infect) is well below one.
Most importantly, it would have been better to propose a start date for a phased return after the measures for tracking and testing were fully established and had been tested for reliability.
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