Nuclear safety experts warn that sweeping cuts to oversight rules could undermine environmental safeguards as the White House races to bring new reactors online by 2026, says CHAUNCEY K ROBINSON
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Phew, what a scorcher!
PETER FROST is in his underpants in front of a fan to bring you news of global warming
The dry banks of March Haigh reservoir near Kirklees in West Yorkshire last week
Engels’ call for a structured, systematic, critique of capitalism and for a strategy for securing something better remains as relevant today as it did a century and a half ago, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
When I used to write about something called global warming, many folk would only half-jokingly comment that they wouldn’t mind Britain having a bit of a warmer climate.
As we realised that it wasn’t that simple, we used the more accurate description “climate change,” but the last few weeks of tropical heatwave here in Britain and in many other places around the globe suggest global warming wasn’t so far off the mark.
Today Britain is roasting in yet another week of heat, with parts of the country reaching temperatures of 36°C (95°F). After weeks without rain, as you read this in today’s Morning Star I hope you and I are enjoying torrential downpours with as much as 30mm (in) of rain expected to fall in an hour.
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When it comes to extreme weather events, from wildfires to flash floods, it’s firefighters who are on the front line of defence, but services have been cut to the bone, and government is not taking seriously its responsibility for the environment, says STEVE WRIGHT