By pressuring Mexico to halt oil shipments, Washington is escalating its blockade of Cuba into a direct bid for economic collapse and regime change, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
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The squabbling in No 10 should not be allowed to distract us
The government’s failures over its Covid-19 response cannot be allowed to slide – they must be challenged, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives at 10 Downing Street, London
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Recent research pushes back the date of the earliest cave art by several thousand years. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT look into the science applied
As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT
Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports
AMID a deadly second wave and record-breaking numbers of Covid-19 cases, it has been truly alarming to see much of the mainstream press focus on the superficial intrigue within No 10 Downing Street.
Frankly, it is embarrassing that government staff are squabbling at a time of national crisis.
Yet we cannot allow this to distract from the catastrophic situation that their incompetence has landed us in.
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