ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
HS2: the great property robbery
The stifling power of property rights blocks the track to modernisation in Britain, writes ANDREW MURRAY
A train passes the HS2 construction site in Euston, London
Long before modern labour movements, England’s farmworkers fought back against their oppression – and for some, like Elizabeth Studham, the price was exile to Australia. MAT COWARD tells the story
As world leaders posture and local politicians bore, voters are left with a grim choice: despair, disengage — or start imagining something better, says MATT KERR
CARLOS MARTINEZ reports on China’s role in helping Cuba develop self-sufficiency in renewable energy, which would shield it from the sort of pain Donald Trump is inflicting with his oil blockade
JAYNE FISHER on why the government’s latest amendments to the Crime & Policing Bill, which returns to the Commons on Tuesday, is a serious threat to our freedoms
A surge in futures activity minutes before news of US–Iran talks has led to questions about insider trading and oversight gaps, writes CJ ATKINS
CONTEMPLATING the sad stump of HS2 — as this is written the cancellation of its remaining northern leg looks inevitable — I recall a conversation I had with the great Marxist economist David Harvey a few years ago.
He was describing how he would visit a district in China and find it more-or-less a wilderness and then return maybe four years later to see it full of factories, housing developments and the most modern infrastructure, including high-speed rail lines.
I asked how the Chinese government was able to accomplish this and his answer stuck with me: “Property rights are not a problem.”
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