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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Sunak offers Italy’s ‘post-fascists’ the spirit of Thatcher
In a fawning speech to Giorgia Meloni that evoked the Iron Lady, Britain’s PM has indicated that immigration will be the hill the Tories die on, if only to shore up their dwindling core, writes NICK WRIGHT
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
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
A NEW deification of Margaret Thatcher is well under way.
Following on from Keir Starmer’s adoration of the woman who he claims renewed Britain’s entrepreneurial spirit, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has now compared Italy’s “post-fascist” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the Iron Lady.
Sunak chose the annual Atreju festival of Azioni Giovani, the youth organisation of Meloni’s governing Fratelli d’Italia party to laud Thatcher’s “radicalism on illegal immigration.”
It is often difficult to discern the core beliefs of the very rich when they take to electoral politics, if only because they have much to lose if the layers of mystification which obscure the connections between wealth and power — necessary adjuncts to bourgeois rule — are revealed.
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