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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Do social media and TV act to dumb down the aspirations of young women?
Programmes like Love Island are banal and entirely feigned and used to promote a cheap consumerism that lets down a whole generation of susceptible young women, says CHARLOTTE HUGHES
ROLE MODELS? (Left to right) Montana Brown, Amber Davies and Olivia Attwood with the TRIC Reality Programme Award for Love Island this year
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
This year we are celebrating the 100-year anniversary of some women getting the vote, achieving a step to independence for the first time.
We are also appreciating and realising the struggle that these mostly working class women went through to achieve the vote.
Arrests, hunger strikes, force-feeding, sexual assault and insults such as “women wouldn’t know what to do with the vote if they got it.”
After achieving the vote, women proved their doubters wrong and have since been a force to be reckoned with. Women were in some respects on the road to achieving equality and this reflected somewhat in society.
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