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
‘A spectacular misuse of public land and public funds’
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
Campaigners against the bridge are seeking to save the nature reserve
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
OXFORD University stands to profit from the destruction of a nature park and “spectacular misuse” of more than £10 million in public funding, campaigners have revealed.
National funding for affordable homes infrastructure has been allocated to a river bridge that would link a new university campus and industrial site to the city centre.
Furious locals challenging the plans at the High Court say they would wreck Grandpont Nature Park while only saving graduates an estimated 20 seconds on their cycling commutes as there are bridges nearby.
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