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The Tories are inflicting conscious cruelty on millions of Britons
Outside the Westminster bubble people can see that vital public services are being deliberately starved of the cash they need, writes CHRIS WILLIAMSON
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
AFTER nearly eight years of ideologically driven austerity, the British public are increasingly calling for an alternative.
The case for an interventionist and enabling state is overwhelming, but Theresa May and her parliamentary colleagues are only interested in pursuing their failed political experiment.
All they have succeeded in doing is to exacerbate inequality, increase poverty and inflict what Ken Loach described as “conscious cruelty” on millions of Britons.
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