Israel and the US talk as if they’ve won a victory, but the reality is that world opinion has turned decisively against the Israeli regime, says RAMZY BAROUD
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A menu without prices for the NHS
Labour’s 24-page manifesto for the health service carefully avoids explaining how any of it will be paid for and provided. This is more than worrying, writes JOHN LISTER
TUNE IN LABOUR! NHS workers march from St Thomas' Hospital to Trafalgar Square, London, May 1 2023
SOLOMON HUGHES finds one-time Cameron-centrist EU fans now promote vicious anti-migrant rhetoric in their bid to get attention for their ailing party
From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
Farage and other Reform-ers keep pointing to Dubai’s immigration policy – but there migrants make up most of the population and do all the work without any rights, muses SOLOMON HUGHES
Modi has rolled out the carpet for the Taliban in New Delhi — and we shouldn’t be surprised. They have more in common than you might think, argues Bhabani Shankar Nayak
HUGH LANNING says there is no path to peace without dismantling Israel’s control over Palestinian land, lives and resources
IT’S almost a month since the Labour Party launched Build an NHS Fit for the Future, one of five “missions” that are supposed to show clearly what the party stands for. It has gone down like a lead balloon.
That is hardly surprising. The turgid 24-page tract lacks both passion and credibility: it’s like a menu without the prices.
While many of its proposals in themselves are sound, there is no explanation of how they might go from words into action.
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