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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Wales, coronavirus and the class divide
TESS DELANEY reflects on how the virus outbreak might affect a country heavily reliant on tourism and with a large population of older people
A closed amusement arcade in Barry Island, Wales
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
IT’S human nature to go into shock in an emergency, and it looks like the nation is in shock.
Here in Wales the public have again been split into opposite camps.
As the schools closed and the sun came out, and Boris Johnson kept his advice just woozy enough to be indecipherable, the crowds flocked to Wales.
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