We are not here to advocate for the arms industry or its CEOs, writes STEVE HANDFORD, and that means we must take a stand against the government’s spending on war
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Diary: June 15, 2019
As Labour mimics Tory welfare cuts while ignoring crumbling schools, educators must collectively resist the government's priorities and fight for an inclusive, creative system that values all children, writes NEU president SARAH KILPATRICK
Although our sector is hearing better things from the current government, the recognition that what we do is education in its own right, rather than just childcare, is still not reflected in policy, writes LUCY COLEMAN
Once able to defy a US president before Congress, Netanyahu now finds himself weakened by military setbacks and facing a populist Trump who may yet put ‘America first’ instead of Israel, writes RAMZY BAROUD
RON BROWN makes the case for the Morning Star as the daily paper of all trade unionists, and especially education workers who have seen it cover their issues and their actions, day in, day out
Without due process, hundreds of Venezuelans living in the US have been arrested, slandered as terroristic criminals and sent flown in chains to El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison under an obscure 18th-century law, reports JOHN PERRY
The NEU’s annual conference promises heated debate, with motions on international politics, curriculum reform and union amalgamation likely to provoke strong reactions and challenge the status quo, writes Education for Tomorrow editor ROBERT POOLE
COULD the orangutan be Jeremy Corbyn’s new secret weapon? Earlier this week I reported that transport union TSSA had resolved to “adopt” an orang in Malaysia or Indonesia, as it joins a campaign against palm oil. The union will now push Labour to ban government incentives to companies which use palm oil products. With anti-fox hunting and animal welfare memes being credited with shoring up Labour’s vote in 2017, if Corbyn takes up the cause, he might be onto a winner.
MY WEEK was vastly improved by a surprise visit (thanks, Kirsty) to the Loch Lomond Bird of Prey centre at Balloch. There I met Birkita, a 13-year-old Great Grey Owl, among other feathered friends. The description on her plaque read: “Very curious, wants to look at everything.” I may have found the journalist hero of my first novel.
AMONG my niche collections in my Glasgow flat are several newspaper headline posters, including my favourite, from the Teignmouth Post: “Widow’s shock at ruined internet bouquet”. Now joining them is one from the Courier, which I picked up when on the road for EIS conference: “PERTH DEALER’S FRYING PAN OF COCAINE”. The Courier is a sister paper of the Press and Journal, where Michael Gove was a trainee reporter. So I did wonder if the Tory leadership contender had realised that his confession to snorting the Colombian marching powder would never match Housing Minister James Brokenshire’s four ovens – and decided to reveal more of the story.
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