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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Iran – give diplomacy a chance
A major challenge facing new President Joe Biden is the US relationship with Iran and how this will affect Middle Eastern geopolitics. JANE GREEN considers the prospects for establishing a new balance in the region
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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
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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
SINCE coming to office Joe Biden has issued a flurry of executive orders aimed at freezing or reversing some of the worst excesses of the Trump administration.
Newly appointed Secretary of State Antony Blinken has already commented on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal struck by Iran and six major powers in 2015, which committed Iran to restricting its nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief from the United States and others.
Donald Trump put the United States in violation of the deal by abandoning it in 2018, reimposing US sanctions and adopting a policy of “maximum pressure” upon the regime in Tehran.
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