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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Our squalid jails are a national scandal
With privatisation badly failing prisoners and staff, MARK FAIRHURST insists Labour must stick to its insourcing pledge and bring prison maintenance back in-house
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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
CHRISTMAS can be a tough time for anyone living or working in our prisons. While others eat, drink and make merry with loved ones in brightly decorated homes and pubs across the country, festive cheer in jail is much harder to find.
Of course, staff do their very best to lift the spirits of those in their care, but the increasingly squalid state of our prisons makes this practically impossible.
From vermin and disease to broken heating systems and overflowing sewage, disgusting conditions drown any spirit of peace or goodwill.
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