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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The right is hijacking outrage over grooming gangs
The failure on grooming gangs that has suddenly received a new wave of attention isn’t a failure of multiculturalism; it is a failure to tackle an epidemic of violence against women and girls, write JESS BARNARD and BEN LIAO
Demonstrators at an anti-racism protest in Walthamstow, London. August 7, 2024
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
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MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
SINCE the turn of the year, Elon Musk, the far-right billionaire and richest man in the world, has been using his social media platform X, to successfully drive the political and news agenda of Britain.
His interventions have now turned to child sexual exploitation and grooming gangs, denouncing Prime Minister Keir Starmer as being responsible for “the rape of Britain,” as well as branding Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips a “rape genocide apologist.”
As a result, his highly organised far-right network has dived into a frenzy, with the media and Reform MPs into parroting his attacks. The Labour Party leadership has been blindsided by Musk’s entrance into our politics, having spent the past five years paranoid about the threat of the left, and leaving the door open to the far right.
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To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped
By spreading race-based conspiracy theories, the billionaire tycoon turned right-wing provocateur has been seriously undermining the case against those who really did let victims of the grooming gangs down, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
