The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
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Leaving the EU and entering a new economic paradigm
Despite being a Remainer, CHRIS WILLIAMSON MP now believes what really matters is how we enact modern and visionary socialist policies outside of the EU
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
THE votes have now been cast in the European election and counting will begin on Sunday.
Whatever the outcome of this election, I believe we must respect the result of the 2016 referendum, even though the margin of victory was relatively narrow. That’s how democracy works.
I lost my parliamentary seat by just 41 votes in 2015, before winning it back with a majority of more than 2,000 in 2017. Being voted out by such a small margin, from a constituency in my home city where I grew up, was a bitter pill to swallow, but I had no choice.
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