A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
How universal credit cheats mature students
MOLLIE BROWN explains how the cruel Tory benefits system ‘unleashed a myriad of problems, hardship and poverty’
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
Years of austerity and political failure have left classrooms overcrowded and staff overstretched – now educators are organising across roles to demand change, says ED HARLOW
While US restrictions tighten economic and social pressures on Cuba, international allies and grassroots campaigns are stepping in to support the island’s resilience, writes BERNARD REGAN, secretary of Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Labour’s approach to Scotland reveals a long-running tension between rhetoric and reality, warns PAULINE BRYAN
I WROTE a little while ago about the complications and obstacles that universal credit (UC) was inflicting on the self-employed, we all know too well the lasting effects that it is having on hundreds of thousands in society.
It has unleashed a myriad of problems, hardship and poverty. But with Parliament and the mainstream media unceasingly focusing on Brexit, universal credit would appear to have been forgotten about. This is not the case for the claimants, who are being forced to live in poverty. I thought it important to bring the focus back to real struggle that is a daily occurrence for so many.
Mature students, like so many, are another minority group that are suffering the harsh impacts of universal credit, many of which are single parents that are predominantly women — in a society that claims to uphold equality, within an education system that is apparently focused on meritocracy.
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