ESTHER, from Nordic Model Now! explains how decriminalisation of prostitution, rendering it just another form of ‘work’, would undermine the Equality Act 2010
Starmer’s top priority? Crush the left
Labour’s top brass fear they might not get the thumping majority some predict — therefore the number of socialists in the next parliament must be minimised, to prevent them having any influence from the back benches on an enfeebled PM, writes ANDREW MURRAY
As a partial successor to the post-war Marshall Plan, USAid is not simply a humanitarian aid programme, but is involved in projecting US power as an instrument of foreign policy, argues NICK WRIGHT
Locals have been let down by procrastination over the upgrade to Ardrossan Harbour, says KATY CLARK MSP
Furious campaigners claim that Oxford University is colluding with the council to squander £10m of public funds for a new bridge that wrecks a nature reserve, reports BERNY TORRE
ISSAM MAKHOUL, former member of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) and currently president of Hadash (the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), talks to Noah Tucker
Fraud in Alzheimer’s research raises difficult questions about the current state of science, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Statement from the South African Communist Party
LABOUR’S first full week of general election campaigning has been overshadowed by the authoritarianism and racism of the Starmer apparatus, and the complete collapse of democratic norms and procedures within the party.
Now who could have seen that coming?
What had previously been Westminster insider understanding — that Starmer’s Labour is an undemocratic, mendacious and discriminatory project — is now common currency.
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