Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
Who is Dominic Cummings?
PETER FROST uncovers a few facts about the man who it seems has a different coronavirus rule book from the rest of us
Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
JUST WHO is Dominic Cummings, who, if everyone except the Prime Minister’s press office is to be believed, drove himself his wife and child to a house in Durham next door to where his parents live and self-isolated themselves and the child in that house?
We do know he refused the offers of help looking after his child from his wife’s sister who lives nearby in London and presumably couldn’t find any help from the various organisations that he advised the Cabinet to recommend to the plebs.
It seems he did the 500-mile-plus round trip at least twice — some suggest three times — all with the comfort stops that any four-year-old would demand on a four-hour, 270-mile journey.
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