Hundreds protested against the US-Israel attacks on Iran in Parliament Square on Saturday, fearing a wider conflagration and horrified by the targeting of young schoolchildren, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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DR ANDREW BOSWELL, an independent environmental consultant and former Green Party councillor, assisted in the drafting of the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill. Here he tells Ian Sinclair about the Bill’s key components and why it is so desperately needed
LUKE FLETCHER outlines Plaid Cymru bold plans for wide-ranging policy consultations with trade unions in Wales
With this attack on Iran, Trump and Netanyahu are taking a reckless leap toward escalation. The region is balancing on the brink of a major war that could undermine the global economy and nuclear security, says MARC VANDEPITTE
Liverpool Trades Council has unveiled a ‘People’s Budget’ to fight £56m cuts and council tax rises. DEAN YOUNG reports
As Washington and Tel Aviv escalate their assault on Iran, the rhetoric of ‘great power’ politics masks a faltering empire resorting to familiar regime-change tactics, says JOHN McINALLY
Labour’s by-election defeat tells a story Scotland has known since 2008. A party that assumes loyalty while offering little more than managed decline will eventually discover that voters always have somewhere else to turn, says MATT KERR
ON AUGUST 12 Green MP Caroline Lucas, with the support of a group of 11 cross-party MPs, tabled the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill, a private member’s Bill, in Parliament.
According to the campaign backing it, the Bill “has the potential to become the most significant move forward since the Climate Change Act 2008.”
The Westminster government often proclaims itself as a world leader when it comes to responding to the climate emergency. Can you explain the current legal targets and laws the government is required to adhere to, and what the problems are with these and the government’s response to them?
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