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The Brexit Party betrayal and the limp Lib Dem launch played out over the rolling crisis that is the Tory election campaign: NEIL FINDLAY MSP looks back at the week that was
Powerful agribusiness interests are trying to overturn efforts by the Lula government to protect the environment and indigenous peoples of the Amazon region, writes GABRIELA SA PESSOA
Trade unions and community groups are mobilising to push back against Trump’s racist raids after new revelations of spying on legal protesters. MARK GRUENBERG reports from the US state of Minnesota
The best wildfire service may begin with the community, argues KOMAL RAJ ARYAL
The evolution of the Scottish nationalist leadership into cheerleaders for Nato has led the party to betray its pledges on Palestine and social spending, writes COLL McCAIL
While riding the No 3 bus in Glasgow MATT KERR has ample time to dissect the moribund Scottish Labour decline into near oblivion and watch intriguing bus passenger dynamics
WELL that’s the first week of the election over and what a week it’s been. The election started well for Labour with soon-to-be-impeached President Donald Trump attacking Jeremy Corbyn whilst giving his support to Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson — what a stroke of genius, Labour couldn’t buy such positive PR.
Trump’s “searing” denunciation of Corbyn was Shakespearean in its eloquence — judge the quality for yourself: “Corbyn would be so bad for your country. He’d be so bad, he’d take you in such a bad way. He’d take you into such bad places,” Trump said. Now as political rhetoric goes it’s not quite up there with Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech but it was still one of Trump’s more coherent ones.
We then had Jacob Rees “Mogadon” telling the world that the victims of the Grenfell disaster should have “ignored fire service advice” and used “common sense” to get out the blazing inferno that took so many lives. In effect saying people died because they were too stupid to save themselves.
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