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The knighthood for blood-soaked Blair won't help rehabilitate him
LINDSEY GERMAN says the whole honours system is a corrupt farce — but elevating Blair is an outrage even in this context
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Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US world hegemony
Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Natalia Marques looks at last week's ruling that Khalil can be deported and its implications
We are not here to advocate for the arms industry or its CEOs, writes STEVE HANDFORD, and that means we must take a stand against the government’s spending on war
Educators must fight for an inclusive, creative system that values all children
Although our sector is hearing better things from the current government, the recognition that what we do is education in its own right, rather than just childcare, is still not reflected in policy, writes LUCY COLEMAN
OF ALL the Knights of the Round Table, Sir Agravain was described as “arrogant and full of evil words.” He joined together with Mordred to betray Lancelot and Guinevere. Perhaps it was this precedent that the current queen had in mind when she decided to honour Tony Blair with the Order of the Garter, the most exclusive knighthood in the country.
It is an award that sent shockwaves across New Year’s Eve gatherings throughout Britain as the news of Sir Tony of Kabul’s ennoblement spread. The year 2021 was, after all, the year of decisive defeat for the Western powers in Afghanistan, 20 years after Blair helped launch the war there.
Today around eight million Afghans are on the edge of starvation and face a particularly bleak winter, in large part because of the freezing of aid and assets by the same Western powers.
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