As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
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Rejoice oh people — we beat Covid and now comes Rishi the magic money man
JOE GILL is sickened by the media pandering to Tory myth-making and forced post-Covid jubilation — as if a corrupt and bungled response to the pandemic had not led to thousands of unnecessary deaths
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
IT’S been a year. On March 9 2020 I felt a tickle of a sore throat and left my office — and London — for the last time. Like millions of others with laptop jobs, I haven’t been back.
Since Boris Johnson’s announcement of a timetable to freedom on February 22, the media message — as delivered by the BBC and the rest of the Establishment press — is to cheerily march forward into a new post-Covid dawn, while remaining cautious about new invasive virus strains.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget on Wednesday was another landmark in which his massive bungs to business — put in a quid and get £1.30 back, what a cool magic trick — were received with the breathlessness that used to be reserved for royal reportage.
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