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The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
May's Cabinet is posher than ever
As the RMT Health and Safety Conference takes place, the union is calling for urgent action on crisis of work-related stress, understaffing and the growing threat of workplace assaults. RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY explains
Current polling shows Scottish Labour faces a stark choice: break decisively with Westminster or continue its slide into irrelevance, warns VINCE MILLS
As discussions continue between the US and Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment programme, the suppression of internal dissent by the theocratic dictatorship grows. STEVE BISHOP reports.
Last weekend’s inaugural conference mixed warmth, unity and ambition with the unmistakable echo of old arguments. MATT KERR wonders whether the fledgling party’s difficulties can be overcome
The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE
Theresa May said her reshuffle would make her government “more like the country it serves,” but, as the Sutton Trust showed, the percentage of her Cabinet who went to private, fee-paying schools actually increased, from 30 per cent to 34 per cent, as against 7 per cent of the general population who are privately educated.
Her new chair of the Conservative Party, Brandon Lewis (pictured), has an even greater commitment to private schools.
Lewis himself was privately educated at the independent Forest School, then went to Buckingham University — one of the five private universities in Britain — which has close links to Margaret Thatcher, who helped its launch and became university chancellor there when she left office in 1992.
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