The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism
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Beware: spying Beluga whales about!
A Beluga whale has turned up in the Norwegian fishing fleet. PETER FROST reminds us of the history of fighting whales and a Thames visitor
An NMMP ( Navy Marine Mammal Program) sea lion attaches a recovery line to a piece of test equipment during training
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TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
NASUWT leader MATT WRACK says schools are crying out for serious investment — and there are other immediate changes a new prime minister could and should enact
Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
The history of using whales in war is long and shocking. Like other evil weapons of war it was the Brits — that’s you and me I’m afraid — that invented it.
Like concentration camps, guided missiles and several hundred other dastardly ways to win a war.
We started in the first world war training zoo-bred sea lions. The navy took them to Lake Bala in Wales to try to train them to find German submarines. They were quick learners, these intelligent sea lions. So intelligent, in fact, that when they were released into the sea they located large schools of herring and mackerel which they ate all day.
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