With the death of Pope Francis, the world loses not only a church leader but also a moral compass that spoke out against inequality, discrimination, war, and climate destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
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Tory recipe for disaster
IAN SINCLAIR charts the last six months of governmental decision making riddled with ineptidude, bloody-mindedness and plain ignorance
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LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
“WE’RE seeing cases rise fairly rapidly – and there could be 50,000 cases detected per day by the 19th [July] and again as we predicted, we’re seeing rising hospital admissions,” Boris Johnson explained at a Downing Street press conference on July 5. “We must reconcile ourselves sadly to more deaths from Covid.”
Frustratingly, as epidemiologist Dr Deepti Gurdasani told the Morning Star last month, “what is happening now was entirely predictable and predicted.” And incredibly, despite the rising number of hospital admissions endangering the NHS’s recovery, over one million people living with Long Covid and an increasing risk of a new variant resistant to vaccines, on July 5 the Prime Minister announced plans to fully open on July 19.
In short, UK government policy is to let the virus “rip” in the UK.
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