A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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Gypsies, Roma and other travellers are at risk from Covid too
PETER FROST finds travellers are even more at risk from the coronavirus than the rest of us — but not enough is being done to monitor and address the impact of Covid on their communities
MISUNDERSTOOD: Travellers in Brough, Cumbria, make their way to Appleby, for the annual Horse Fair. Picture date: Wednesday August 11 2021
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The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
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
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
TWENTY odd years ago, for about two decades I was the editor of the world’s largest circulation camping and caravanning magazine. One of the key issues of the time was the fact that more and more of what had been holiday static caravans were being used as low-cost permanent housing.
My wife Ann and I had a small canal boat at the time and our favourite weekend away was a trip along the Grand Union Canal from our home near Watford to Camden Market in London. On every trip we saw more and more permanently moored boats again being used as floating low-cost housing.
More recently I have watched as more and more people are using towed caravans, motorhomes and campers, not just as they used to, for holidays, but as permanent — if movable — places to live.
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