JAYNE FISHER on why the government’s latest amendments to the Crime & Policing Bill, which returns to the Commons on Tuesday, is a serious threat to our freedoms
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ANDREW MURRAY surveys the political landscape in one of Britain’s most controversial by-elections in years, and talks to the frontrunner – George Galloway – about the ‘perfect storm’ brewing for Labour
A woman walks past a sign for a polling station location in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, ahead of the by-election on Thursday, February 13, 2024
A surge in futures activity minutes before news of US–Iran talks has led to questions about insider trading and oversight gaps, writes CJ ATKINS
In his fortnightly Borderlands column, MARK SEDDON visits overgrown forts along Offa’s Dyke and reflects on wars past and present
With attacks on industry, healthcare and education intensifying, JAMSHID AHMADI warns of a deliberate drive to cripple Iran and calls for urgent global action
The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) cautiously welcomes the ceasefire, but remains suspicious of US and Israeli intentions
JOHN McINALLY assesses what we’ve learned from the disastrous US war so far
THERE are stories to tell about Rochdale. It is home to the Rochdale Pioneers who launched the worldwide co-operative movement and thus to a central place in the traditions of socialism.
It is a community gutted by the gales of neoliberal capitalism, the evisceration of unconstrained profit-seeking wrought in the desolation of the built environment and the poverty of many of its people.
But that is not, or at least not mainly, the story of Rochdale’s parliamentary by-election, due on February 29.
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