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
The weapons that drive immigration
New analysis has made the link between the arms trade, wars and forced migration clearer than ever — but instead of clamping down on the industry, Europe and Britain are focusing on turning back desperate refugees in boats, writes NATHAN AKEHURST
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH: (Left) A local lifeboat at Dungeness in Kent, brings in a group of refugees picked-up following a small boat incident in the Channel
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
LAST YEAR a Conservative MP warned the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) that they “were risking the reputation of the charity.”
The RNLI, a volunteer emergency service which usually saves the lives of overconfident surfers or sunstroke-hit beachgoers, has dared to defend also saving refugees in the English Channel, as well as run an anti-drowning overseas aid programme.
In so doing they have wandered into the British political establishment’s periodic assaults on migrants. These have stepped up again as the British government rushes through its Nationality and Borders Bill, adopting a suite of measures that have caused chaos and misery elsewhere to “protect” the country from a handful of people in dinghies.
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