A vast US war fleet deployed in the south Caribbean — ostensibly to fight drug-trafficking but widely seen as a push for violent regime change — has sparked international condemnation and bipartisan resistance in the US itself. FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ reports
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After the Landslide: reasons to be fearful
From bankers’ bonuses to tax avoidance and personally trousering thousands in expenses before they even got to power, Labour’s current incarnation doesn’t fill BERNIE EVANS with hope
With his £16,000 worth of “free” clothes,” and being known to have accepted concert and match tickets, as well as hospitality worth £3,716 to watch the Epsom Derby last year at a time when he should have been planning legislation to ban all such enticement, Keir Starmer cannot see anything wrong with his behaviour. He hasn’t broken any rules, he claims, and obviously has no plans to change them.
ANSELM ELDERGILL recalls the misjudgments, mishaps and moments of farce that shaped his years in legal practice
MAT COWARD tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
Amid the festive lights, Scotland faces a stark holiday truth: only real investment in public services and the workers who sustain them can lift communities out of poverty, argues LILIAN MACER
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR
KEIR STARMER and his supporters in the press have been keen in the last few weeks, for obvious reasons, to stress how a Labour government will change lives dramatically, with Rafael Behr in the Guardian convinced there is abundant “available evidence” suggesting Starmer will be a “transformative Labour Prime Minister.”
While there are hints of improvements for workers in Rayner’s package of reforms, sadly there is far more evidence to indicate change will be minimal.
Does the party’s kowtowing to the banks and big business really suggest things will be better for the average worker earning less than average wages and struggling to make ends meet?
Labour hasn’t even suggested windfall taxes on the massive profits banks made during the inflation crisis by immediately raising interest rates for borrowers when the Bank of England increased the base rate but kept rates low for savers.
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