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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Covid-19 survivors forgotten and struggling
While we should welcome patients recovering from coronavirus, as I did, many are still battling health difficulties as a result of their illness, and we don’t hear their stories often enough, writes CHARLOTTE HUGHES
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
I MOST likely contracted Covid-19 at my small local Asda store. I didn’t go out to any other place.
While they had people lining up correctly and had hand sanitiser to use if you wanted to, it wasn’t compulsory and hardly anyone in the store was wearing a mask or protective gear.
As a result of everyone panic-buying, it was crowded, hot and full of people ignoring the rules.
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