The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
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New ways of engaging needed in education
IAN DUCKETT calls for an educational roadmap out of the pandemic for disaffected learners
Today’s interconnected conflicts are enriching the arms industry while pushing the entire world towards permanent militarisation, argues ROGER McKENZIE
by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
IT IS not only disaffected young people who will need a new start as we head out of the pandemic, but it is they who will need a major incentive as well as a broad shoulder to lean on if they are going to be able to engage with further education or the world of work.
As pressure mounts on schools to reopen it is time for a reckoning.
At the start of the first coronavirus lockdown I was working with excluded pupils, who were often only engaging with learning at all to qualify for a food voucher.
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