JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US

THE last couple of years can seem a bit of a blur, a depressing sequence of semi-lockdowns and partial reopenings.
The virus casting its shadow over all our plans, as in the background the Conservative government assiduously strips away rights — to protest, to vote, to freedom of speech, to seek refuge from persecution, even to receive warning if it decides to remove our citizenship.
This monotony should by now have exploded any notion that Covid is a temporary emergency after which we can go back to “normal.”

Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’