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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Women have been shamefully betrayed by the government
Five women explain how the government’s unilateral pension changes have shattered their life plans and left them facing poverty and insecurity
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
"I followed my dreams and went to live in Northern Cyprus, where I would still be if I had got my state pension at 60.
I came back and had to look for work. The only possible job was in caring and that was extremely hard both mentally and physically.
Eight years ago I had a serious car accident, which left me needing a new knee and with osteoporosis and osteoarthritis in most joints of my body.
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