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
Whoever is Tory leader will continue their four-decade war on the working class
IAN LAVERY has no pity to spare for the charlatan leaving Downing Street – and says leadership will be found not in the Tory ranks but on the streets of Durham this weekend
The door of 10 Downing Street, London
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
AS I figuratively put pen to paper the nation is breathing a huge sigh of relief with the dastardly Boris Johnson having just announced he would be resigning.
There is no doubt that by the time this is published for the Big Meeting that things will have moved on somewhat and we will have a better idea of what the future holds.
Elements of our fawning media who have always thought he was some sort of celebrity performer, have already begun to describe his speech as being delivered in typical “Boris fashion.”
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