The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Sajid Javid’s bid to reduce migrants’ rights
SOLOMON HUGHES examines how the Home Secretary’s new regional pay thresholds plan would effectively create a system of ‘pass laws’ to further exploit migrants
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
HOME SECRETARY Sajid Javid is edging closer towards a nasty policy of regional work permits for migrants, which would use the “hostile environment” apparatus to push all new migrants into a legal status as second-class citizens.
The thing to grasp is that the real sting in post-Brexit government migration policy is not about “numbers” it is about rights.
The Tories claim that they want to leave the EU because they will have control of migration and be able to reduce “numbers” to satisfy anti-migrant feelings.
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