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We have not seen this type of anguish since the days of my boyhood in the 1930s
Today’s Tory Britain is sickeningly unjust – but my past does not have to become your future, says HARRY LESLIE SMITH
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
THE darkness of austerity gathers all across Britain like the clouds of night while the Tory Party conference in Manchester celebrates its victory in May’s general election behind barbed wire, barricades and a phalanx of police and private security.
As champagne flows and touches the lips of corporate lobbyist party donors and apologists for the slowest economic recovery in Britain for over 300 years, nearly 100,000 children live on the cusp of homelessness and in the cold bosom of despair.
While the party faithful gladhand David Cameron and George Osborne for a job well done on giving tax breaks to our most affluent citizens, four million people subsist below the poverty line.
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