The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
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‘Like the boy who cried wolf’
TONY GREENSTEIN puts the record straight on his suspension from the Labour Party for alleged anti-semitism
Media Lens at 25: David Cromwell and David Edwards reflect on a quarter-century of media criticism, explaining why independent journalism is more important than ever
by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family
The International Court of Justice has delivered its clearest ruling yet that the right to strike is protected under international law, write Professor TONIA NOVITZ, Professor KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC
Emergency phone alerts could help Britain respond to rising wildfire risk, but Australia’s experience suggests they work best as part of a broader strategy, write ELLIOT CONVERY-FISHER and KATE PARKINS
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
IF YOU listen to the BBC or read Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian, you’d be forgiven for believing there is a serious problem of anti-semitism in the Labour Party.
For the past nine months there has been a steady onslaught on Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the party relating to this. First, he was guilty of associating with Holocaust deniers and, when that failed, he was accused of being soft on anti-semitism.
Yet what is the evidence? A two-year-old tweet about Jews having large noses and an idiot Trotskyist, Gerry Downing, who believes that there is a cabal of zionist capitalists who run the foreign policy of Britain and the US.
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