RAMZY BAROUD sees Gaza abandoned while the genocide continues
A menu without prices for the NHS
Labour’s 24-page manifesto for the health service carefully avoids explaining how any of it will be paid for and provided. This is more than worrying, writes JOHN LISTER
TUNE IN LABOUR! NHS workers march from St Thomas' Hospital to Trafalgar Square, London, May 1 2023
ANDREW MURRAY offers some troubling thoughts on pressing political issues
Tensions have once again escalated between Egypt and Ethiopia over GERD, Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, and now Trump has offered to mediate. NICHOLAS MWANGI reports
The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
IT’S almost a month since the Labour Party launched Build an NHS Fit for the Future, one of five “missions” that are supposed to show clearly what the party stands for. It has gone down like a lead balloon.
That is hardly surprising. The turgid 24-page tract lacks both passion and credibility: it’s like a menu without the prices.
While many of its proposals in themselves are sound, there is no explanation of how they might go from words into action.
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