The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
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What I didn’t do on my holiday
PETER FROST finds his holiday destination isn’t there any more
REMNANTS OF DOGGERLAND: (Above) Minsmere from Dunwich Heath
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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
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
MY WIFE Ann and I have had a short holiday away. Once lockdown had been eased a little, we decided to get away for a few days — but where to go?
I have been lucky enough to have earned my living as a travel journalist.
Ann and I have camped or motor-homed in 43 countries, from Albania to New Zealand.
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