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CHRIS WILLIAMSON on a little-known power local authorities could use to stop cuts without taxing the poor more
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
AS EACH week goes by the pungent pong of a putrefying political party is polluting Westminster’s corridors of power. That pretty much sums up the Conservative Party’s current plight, and it is reminiscent of the mid-1990s.
Back then, as sleaze allegations were engulfing the Tories, they were fighting with each other like rats in a sack about Europe, and a hapless prime minister was squatting in Downing Street awaiting the inevitable.
Sounds familiar doesn’t it? But this time the situation is far more serious for the Tory Party, which is now facing an existential crisis.
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