DIANE ABBOTT explodes the anti-migrant myths perpetrated by cynical politicians and an irresponsible mass media
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May’s still on course for a bigots’ Britain
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
As we mark the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, JOHN WIGHT reflects on the enormity of the US decision to drop the atom bombs
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Labour councillor PAUL DONOVAN wonders why the right-wing party gets so much more media attention than it seems to merit
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
Well, well, well. Once more it’s been severely embarrassing week for the rightwingers and bigots in the Tory party who saw their rabidly xenophobic policies hit a stumbling block in the upper house.
It’s not much in the grand scheme of things but God we need something to cling to at the moment. Rather like an orphan refugee child desperately clutching a piece of flotsam in the Mediterranean.
May and her cronies received a good kicking from the Lords who voted to amend her deliberately ambiguous plans for resident EU nationals many of whom have lived here for years contributing to the economy of these septic isles.
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