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Sinking below the waves
PETER FROST looks a bit deeper into the troubled waters left behind by the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow
A view of the Shetland Isles
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
ALL THE fuss of the Glasgow Cop conference is over. Will much come of it except a few useful video clips for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s next election campaign? Frankly, I doubt it. I think Greta Thunberg got it just about right with her “blah, blah, blah” comment.
The world’s stateswomen and men, at least those who were at Glasgow, insisted they were having to take a global view, but I think it is easier to put in perspective if we look at the smaller, more detailed changes that climate catastrophe will bring.
For me, the most disappointing and frankly terrifying news to emerge was the threat to some of my favourite kinds of places. I’ve always loved islands and low-lying estuaries, the places where sea and land meet.
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