ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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The Tories’ education culture wars
The Conservatives have a long history of encouraging division in schooling – but the Labour government of 1964 introduced a new comprehensive system, sweeping away the grammar/secondary modern divide. KEITH FLETT takes a look
Students at the London School of Economics listen to a speech from from Professor Lord Robbins, a lecturer in economics at the school. Robbins was the author of a Tory-commissioned report into access
to higher education in 1963.
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
EDUCATION has been a feature of the Tory leadership race. Given the age of the party’s electorate, both candidates are talking about the great grand-children of those voting.
Liz Truss has complained that the comprehensive school she went to in Leeds, Roundhay, did not provide a good education.
However she ended up at Oxford. Rishi Sunak, who went to Winchester College, a rival to Eton, has argued that universities are about “earnings potential” and the focus must be on subjects in that area.
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KEITH FLETT revisits the 1978 origins of Britain’s May Day bank holiday — from Michael Foot’s triumph to Thatcher’s reluctant acceptance — as Starmer’s government dodges calls to expand our working-class celebrations
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Starmer’s slash-and-burn approach to disability benefits represents a fundamental break with Labour’s founding mission to challenge the idle rich rather than punish the vulnerable poor, argues KEITH FLETT
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