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Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
Housing crisis of our making blamed on foreigners too
Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
HaiL fellows and well met! As silly season continues to grind on with all the alacrity of a seized engine with sugar in the tank the serried ranks of the fourth estate are, once more, seeking to outdo each other with the most sensationalist takes on the completely bleeding obvious.
If they can’t find an Olympic angle they manufacture one or, as has been the case this week, rummage through the old story slush pile to see if there’s anything they can put a fresh spin on.
Take this for example: “Foreign billionaires buying up hundreds of millions of pounds worth of property in London only to let it lie empty.”
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