Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Palestine protests must have a realisable goal
Bringing to bear our collective power over our governments in the West to enforce peace is best aided by a demand for a viable Palestinian state here and now, argues NICK WRIGHT
Pro-Palestine protesters in Washington
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
DAVID CAMERON has emerged from his £25,000 faux Romany caravan to conduct the foreign policy of the second most powerful imperialist state in the world.
After the crudities of the Suella Braverman interlude, we are told that Rishi Sunak’s latest appointment gifts him a wise consigliere offering a socially liberal gloss to his Tory government.
Even those metropolitan sophisticates invested in the most permissive of moral regimes might find simulated intimacy with a dead pig at the outer limits of their tolerance and perhaps not the best qualification for one embarking on a Middle Eastern diplomatic mission.
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