The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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SOLOMON HUGHES recalls the new Brexit tsar’s disastrous time as education secretary
As the RMT Health and Safety Conference takes place, the union is calling for urgent action on crisis of work-related stress, understaffing and the growing threat of workplace assaults. RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY explains
Current polling shows Scottish Labour faces a stark choice: break decisively with Westminster or continue its slide into irrelevance, warns VINCE MILLS
As discussions continue between the US and Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment programme, the suppression of internal dissent by the theocratic dictatorship grows. STEVE BISHOP reports.
Last weekend’s inaugural conference mixed warmth, unity and ambition with the unmistakable echo of old arguments. MATT KERR wonders whether the fledgling party’s difficulties can be overcome
The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE
MICHAEL GOVE is in charge of “no deal” preparations — what does that tell us?
Boris Johnson has made Gove the “chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster” — a kind of spare Cabinet minister position — which, because this is Britain, has a stupid knights-of-olde name — and made him responsible for preparing for a possible crash-out from the European Union.
Gove has a seat on the six-man (and it is all male) committee of senior ministers in charge of “exit strategy.”
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