The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
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Tories suck up to far right
As the Conservatives lose electoral ground some of them hope the extremists will shore them up, warns WEYMAN BENNETT
VOX POPULI: Extinction Rebellion and Stand Up to Racism activists take part in a Stop Braverman, Stop the Hate protest outside the Home Office in central London last Saturday
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
National co-ordinator for General Strike 100, HENRY FOWLER, continues his nationwide tour of partner organisations by visiting the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University
GEOFF BOTTOMS recalls meeting Fidel Castro in the ’90s after joining a Pastors for Peace caravan to Cuba, and reflects on how international support is still vital to help the island withstand economic warfare
The Ivors Academy’s hike in entry fees could turn this respected peer-assessed event into an exclusive preserve for those wealthy enough to compete, warns BEN LUNN
Peter Murrell’s weakness for the allure of prestige goods is symptomatic of modern consumer culture, says MATT KERR
MANY would have believed that the sacking of Suella Braverman might herald the end of the Sunak government’s systematic attempts to scapegoat refugees and stir up the far right, but it’s clear that this is not the case.
Braverman was a long way out there. She’s been pushing at the margins of politics, associating herself with the far-right great replacement theory and ramping up rhetoric that she knew could lead to far-right mobilisation and violence.
The government’s failure to push its Rwanda plan through the Supreme Court led, not to reflection, but instead Sunak promising emergency legislation and a new treaty with Rwanda.
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CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
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