While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
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Tories still in bed with private developers
Prospects for a lasting solutions to the catastrophic housing crisis look bleaker by the day in the incoming political climate
BOG STANDARD: Northstowe, Cambridgeshire, built by Bloor Homes
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NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
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General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
WHAT will our re-elected Tory party do about the housing crisis? To get the answer, you need to look in the annual report. Not the Conservative Party annual report, but the annual report of Bloor Homes Limited, issued just before Christmas.
It might seem a bit obscure to be looking for Tory housing policy in the accounts of one private builder. But property tycoon John Stuart Bloor owns Bloor Homes. And through his other company, JS Bloor (Services) Ltd, Bloor has given the Tory Party £1.6 million pounds.
The Tory party is funded by property moguls like Bloor, so the party will do what they want.
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