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Flickers of light and north London elites
Anti-semitism and racism are to be found in spades in today’s Toryland, says DAVID ROSENBERG
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
As tensions escalate over Iran, CAROL MOCHAN MSP argues that Britain must finally learn from the disastrous legacy of Iraq and choose diplomacy over another catastrophic conflict
While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER
The mass killing of Iranian schoolgirls should have dominated global headlines. Instead it became another example of how civilians — especially women and children — are targeted in war, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
FOR those members of the media/commentariat who have spent the last four years largely looking in the wrong place for the presence of anti-semitism in British politics, the week leading up to Friday’s anniversary of the battle of Cable Street might just have provided a flicker of light for them, encouraging them to look elsewhere.
On Tuesday, Priti Patel, the hard-right home secretary, an immigrant herself, spoke out forcefully against immigration and “freedom of movement” and lambasted those she thinks encourage it.
“This daughter of immigrants needs no lectures from the north London metropolitan liberal elite,” she said.
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CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
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