The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
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Universal credit claimants need extra assistance amid Covid-19
Those who are already struggling under a cruel benefits system must have urgent protections put in place, writes MOLLIE BROWN
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
Claudia Webbe pays tribute tribute to KANYA KING CBE, February 12 1964 to June 3 2026
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
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
LIKE many others, over the last few weeks I have watched the growth of the coronavirus, which is now a global pandemic.
I looked on while China, Italy and Spain announced more and more cases and saw the death toll rising, hoping that once it hit Britain we would be ready to gain some sort of control over it.
This period of hope has now passed — we are in the midst of a global pandemic.
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