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
Panto season is upon us
With the farce of self-imposed ‘fiscal rules’ hanging over next week’s Budget, MATT KERR is not hopeful that the Chancellor will play Mother Goose with the golden eggs
FOR THE FEW NOT THE MANY? Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves addresses up to 300 industry leaders at the International Investment Summit in London
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
THE nights are fair drawin’ in, as they say. The gales have arrived, knocking the withered leaves from the trees, only to be washed down a gully in the torrents of rain… promptly blocking the drain.
It’s the annual reminder, should any be now necessary at all, that services aren’t what they used to be. The only broom to sweep a gutter these days will be found in your cupboard, not the back of a council wagon.
Somewhere in a far-off place, a resident will emerge from her home next week onto the most immaculate street in the land. Regularly swept for litter, listening devices and explosives, only journalists and the endless procession of new MPs posing for selfies on the steps of No 10 litter Downing Street.
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It’s hard to understand how minor divisions can come to dominate the process of building a challenge to the rule of the rich when the desperate need for a vehicle to fight poverty and despair is so abundantly clear, writes MATT KERR
