As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
‘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
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
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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