The modern railway network turns 200 this month and is currently one of the greenest forms of transport. But unless focus shifts from profits to people, Britain won’t benefit from it, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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Kamala Harris is a contender: where now for US politics?
Taking into account the powerful role of Black Lives Matter, women’s rights, and anti-racist sentiment in recent US elections, the Republicans now face a serious challenge, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
THE BIDEN BURDEN: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
ZHANG HE highlights pressure coming from the global South for a more multilateral approach to global governance and a more equitable world order
A joint statement from Derby Indian Workers’ Association and Vox Feminarum/Women’s Voices
Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
The protests against the US presidential visit are over, but the public probably doesn’t know that new US nuclear bombs are now stationed here, putting us all in danger — we have to raise awareness and get them out, writes CND’s KATE HUDSON
In a speech to the 12th Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, SEVIM DAGDELEN warns of a growing historical revisionism to whitewash Germany and Japan’s role in WWII as part of a return to a cold war strategy from the West — but multipolarity will win out
DONALD TRUMP was facing an easy ride to the White House when he was matched against Joe Biden. Now he has to face off against Kamala Harris things look very different. Trump has good reason to be scared.
He might even lose, again, although it is quite likely he will claim he won, against all the evidence. But he knows now he is in a race.
US presidential elections are usually consequential, even if those consequences are often surprising. After all, it was not the non-WASP US golden boy JFK who ended the Vietnam war. That was forced on Tricky Dickie Nixon, who was later forced to resign from office in disgrace.
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