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Trump put in his place during inaugural prayer service
The words of compassion by Bishop Budde were ‘a lesson in moral leadership and courage that our government would do well to listen to,’ says Jeremy Corbyn. LINDA PENTZ GUNTER has more on the sermon heard around the world
US President Donald Trump (left) watches as Reverend Mariann Budde (second right) arrives at the national prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral, January 21, 2025, in Washington
The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Due to the actions of this government, the challenges facing those with disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, are nigh on insurmountable, argus RUTH HUNT
General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
ABOUT the only satisfying sight to emerge from President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday was the picture of progressive independent Senator Bernie Sanders sitting grumpily with his arms folded while others around him stood to cheer.
The image was reminiscent of the Sanders photo that went viral after Joe Biden’s chilly outdoor inauguration in January 2021, when Sanders sat in a similar pose wearing a pair of large, woolly mittens.
Sanders didn’t need the mittens this time because Trump’s inauguration was moved indoors, even though expected temperatures were scarcely lower than those during the inaugurations of John F Kennedy, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama’s first, all of which took place outside. The decision to go inside rightfully elicited an outpouring of scorn directed toward Trump’s aspirations as a machismo-fuelled strongman.
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