Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
Ecosystems and economics turned inside out
Amid increasing floods and drought brought about by climate change, water security and its effective management are going to become pivotal factors in tomorrow’s politics, warns ALAN SIMPSON
ON THE WRONG PLANET: Former Bank of England governor Mervyn King
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
One hundred years after 1.7m workers shut the country down in defence of the miners, the struggles that sparked the 1926 General Strike are still with us – and will be honoured on London’s May Day march this year, writes MARY ADOSSIDES
The Labour Growth Group and its think tank partner, the Good Growth Foundation, have taken funding from major lobbying firms linked to housebuilders, banks and Heathrow – raising questions about corporate influence at the heart of Starmer’s pro-growth project. SOLOMON HUGHES reports
The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a registered nurse and union member, has sparked nationwide protests and renewed calls from National Nurses United to dismantle Ice and related agencies, says MARK GRUENBERG
A Vatican photo-op, a hard-right donor and a rhetoric of mass deportations reveal how appeals to ‘Christian values’ are being reshaped by Reform and Tory MPs, says SOLOMON HUGHES
WHEN systems break down, contradictions pour out everywhere. Just as the floodwaters washed whole districts of Derna, Libya, into the sea, former governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, claimed it was unreasonable to give the bank climate duties. Mervyn lives on the wrong planet.
Over 20,000 people remain unaccounted for in Derna. It could be many more. Relatives of the missing search for them among bodies washed back onto the beaches. The scale of losses is difficult to imagine.
It isn’t much better further along the north Africa coast where emergency relief teams are still trying to access remote villages in Morocco, all devastated by the earthquake.
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