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If May wants an economy that works for all, she should stop subsidising companies to pay poverty wages
Why do we tolerate high-profit companies being given a licence to exploit their workers, asks SALMAN SHAHEEN
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 eight years of a Tory government that has seen the explosion of foodbanks, the rise of zero-hours contracts, stagnant wages, in-work poverty and the erosion of living standards for the poorest in society, Theresa May has finally declared we need an economy that works for all.
It would be too easy to fisk her piece in the Observer.
“I want the British people to have the very best. A first-class health service, which is there for all of us in our time of need.”
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If we can tackle the big issues, like delivering decent public services and affordable state-built and owned housing by making the richest pay a fair amount of tax, Labour can win back the trust and support of the electorate, argues ANDY McDONALD MP
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