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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SOLOMON HIGHES looks at the ancient stash of 'posh cash' that is funding the Tories' attempts to court the Northern working class
OLD MONEY: The descendants of Sir Nicholas, pictured in 1962, are still pulling strings today
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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
IN a demonstration of the Tory commitment to self-made men and women, a big slice of the Conservative Party campaigning in down-to-earth constituencies is funded by a man who pulled himself up by his own bootstraps — about 140 years ago.
The Cayzer Family Trust funds Tory campaigning in many constituencies. The Cayzer money comes from a simple lad who made his fortune in the 19th century. It has been the fortune for a big family of country-estate-owning inheritors who have been living off his industry ever since.
Charles Cazyer, son of a schoolmaster, was born in London’s Limehouse in 1843, went into the shipping business and eventually became hugely wealthy from his own shipping firm. He used the money from his steamship line to buy vast country estates in Scotland. He was elected a Tory MP in 1892, then later made a hereditary Tory lord.
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