The massacre of Red Crescent and civil defence aid workers has elicited little coverage and no condemnation by major powers — this is the age of lawlessness, warns JOE GILL
Westminster politics is dire – so don’t lose sight of the bigger picture
Can unity of purpose and organisation bring about the fighting coalitions needed to beat the Tories? KEVIN OVENDEN believes so, but warns the left needs to be bold

IF POLITICS were deduction from party opinion polling then Britain as a whole is a grim and depressing place.
A year after the belated first lockdown and with nearly 150,000 needless deaths, the Tories are well ahead.
It cannot be written off as a “vaccine bounce.” Labour’s slide started before the vaccine rollout. Boris Johnson has widened his personal rating over Keir Starmer to 24 percentage points in a year.
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