Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

YANA PETTICREW explains what’s behind the strike and how the entire sector rests on super-exploiting an unorganised workforce

STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century

BILL KIDD MSP says increasing Britain’s nuclear arsenal at this time is dangerous and expensive folly

ROGER McKENZIE asks whether the US’s shift to targeting everyone at once will instil greater co-operation among rising powers