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Prejudices and follies of the elite are fatal
The poor have taken a beating from an elite that understands little, BERNADETTE HORTON writes
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
AUSTERITY has covered acres of newspaper space since 2010. There has been excellent coverage by journalists who have penned millions of words on austerity from every conceivable angle.
Yet by virtue of their job, not many actually “live” austerity. They don’t spend day-in and day-out experiencing it on the front line, sleep, eat and breathe austerity as a way of life. They can only record the details — the struggles of the poor.
Since 2010 being “poor” has taken on a whole new meaning. We now have our own subsections — the unemployed poor, the disabled poor, the carer poor, the student poor and whole battalions of working poor, of which I am a member.
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