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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What sort of society allows children to go hungry?
We need to redouble our efforts to bring Foodbank Britain to an end, says CHARLOTTE HUGHES
Centre manager Michele Lawrence at the Trussell Trust Brent Foodbank, Neasden, London
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
ON Thursday December 20 we held a special Christmas memorial service outside Ashton-Under-Lyne jobcentre.
We do this every year in memory of every person who has died as a result of the government’s heartless treatment of the poor and disabled.
Austerity measures, the further roll-out of universal credit and failed Employment and Support Allowance and Personal Independence Payment “medicals” have all ensured that the poorest and most vulnerable will be living in poverty for years to come.
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