The UK Prime Minister may have the regal touch in northern England, but he’s been wrong-footed on the constitutional challenges posed by the Celtic Alliance of first ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, argues KENNY MacASKILL
A divided Tory Party remains united in deepening austerity
Gavin Williamson was forced out, in part, by external pressure — a small sign that we can, and must, bring our weight to bear on this shaky administration, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
NEIRLAY ANDRADE, a member of the Communist Party of Venezuela’s political committee, outlines her party’s position on the crisis facing the country
A look at Taylor Wimpey’s accounts shows why Labour’s market-led housing strategy won’t deliver more, cheaper homes, as promised, says SOLOMON HUGHES
DAVID HORSLEY remembers the remarkable life and death of US black revolutionary George Jackson, whose politically passionate prison letters were published as Soledad Brother
Cuban trade union federation CTC leader OSNAY MIGUEL COLINA speaks to Ben Chacko about life and work under a crippling US siege
A part of the British empire’s network of slavery, today the Caribbean island of Nevis faces a new form of exploitation in the form of crypto-colonialism, CLAUDIA WEBBE writes
Challenges from the unscrupulous misuse of AI to steal actors’ voice and physical likenesses is being met with a firm union response, writes LYNDA ROOKE
THE departure of Gavin Williamson as a minister, the first of the Rishi Sunak premiership, tells us something important about this government and its divisions.
We should be clear that the entire Tory Party is united in support of the plan to impose yet more austerity on ordinary people. But the growing resistance to those plans means the Tory monolith can crack — sometimes in the most unexpected places — and we should take advantage of that.
Despite the parliamentary niceties, and Sunak’s clear concern about letting him go, it is clear Williamson was sacked. This is his third sacking as minister; the fact that such a widely disliked and discredited figure was ever recalled to government demonstrates how brittle this Tory Party is.
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