The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
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Sixty years of blockade have not made Cuba collapse, but they have devastated it. While Washington stands isolated at the United Nations, the Cuban people are paying the price, writes KATRIEN DEMUYNCK
As Armistice Day approaches, with the far right hoping to use it to promote their own form of ‘patriotism,’ NICK WRIGHT considers the nature of conflicts in the 20th and 21st centuries and the different ways they should be remembered
WHEN I first moved to London, I used the Underground system but quickly found I preferred to be above ground to see the city.
I also had to escape the oppressive heat of the underground system— even during winter — which left me to default to London’s amazing bus system.
Living on a narrowboat in and around the city, London’s iconic red buses along with my bicycle were my means for dropping off and picking up my youngest child at school in addition to running errands, meetings and visiting friends.
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Thanks to impressive progress in Britain with wind and solar generation, clean electricity now costs a fraction of the price of gas — yet the current system keeps bills artificially high to protect fossil fuels, writes TOM HARDY
Addressing new climate challenges will require co-ordinated efforts by governments and local authorities for both drought and flood risks — and it’s people power that will be key to getting policy implemented, writes DOUG SPECHT
But Unite warns that Labour has ‘missed a golden opportunity to bring the national grid under public ownership’