The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
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Labour's passive and apologetic stance needs to change
Forgive and forget? But appeasing backstabbers like Tom Watson has not ended the torrent of attacks on Jeremy Corbyn
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
MANY Labour members and supporters, frustrated by the party’s progressive policies being supplanted in media coverage by anti-semitism allegations and internal discipline, understandably want to draw a line under all unpleasantness.
Some suggest giving in to the clamour to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) anti-semitism definition and its working examples that would restrict criticism of Israel.
Others would give a free pass to MPs who disregard the Labour Party code on conducting political debate in a civilised and non-abusive manner, provided they are opponents of Jeremy Corbyn.
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