After years hidden away, Oldham’s memorial to six local volunteers who died fighting fascism in the Spanish civil war has been restored to public view, marking both a victory for campaigners and a renewed tribute to the town’s proud International Brigade heritage, says ROB HARGREAVES
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The Brexit Party betrayal and the limp Lib Dem launch played out over the rolling crisis that is the Tory election campaign: NEIL FINDLAY MSP looks back at the week that was
While pretending to seek peace, Europe is heading toward a collision course with Russia – using security guarantees, troop deployments, expropriation and censorship as tools, writes SEVIM DAGDELEN
Alba party leader KENNY MacASKILL makes some suggestions on how to save our pubs and reduce irresponsible drinking
The catastrophe unfolding in Gaza – where Palestinians are freezing to death in tents – is not a natural disaster but a calculated outcome of Israel’s ongoing blockade, aid restrictions and continued violence, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Opinion polls point to electoral collapse, parliamentary rebellion and a looming leadership challenge as Starmer’s Labour haemorrhages working-class support and the far right exploits the vacuum left by a hollowed-out party, says NICK WRIGHT
The long-term effects of chemical weapons such as Agent Orange mean that the impact of war lasts well beyond a ceasefire
WELL that’s the first week of the election over and what a week it’s been. The election started well for Labour with soon-to-be-impeached President Donald Trump attacking Jeremy Corbyn whilst giving his support to Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson — what a stroke of genius, Labour couldn’t buy such positive PR.
Trump’s “searing” denunciation of Corbyn was Shakespearean in its eloquence — judge the quality for yourself: “Corbyn would be so bad for your country. He’d be so bad, he’d take you in such a bad way. He’d take you into such bad places,” Trump said. Now as political rhetoric goes it’s not quite up there with Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech but it was still one of Trump’s more coherent ones.
We then had Jacob Rees “Mogadon” telling the world that the victims of the Grenfell disaster should have “ignored fire service advice” and used “common sense” to get out the blazing inferno that took so many lives. In effect saying people died because they were too stupid to save themselves.
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