A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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It is climate change that most threatens our children’s prospects – not Brexit, writes ALAN SIMPSON
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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
UGLY scenes outside Parliament have made the place look and feel like the Siege of Troy. But around the country bigger issues already fill the landscape.
A “climate emergency” conference in Lancaster drew in some 200-300 local authority and climate groups (along with similar numbers live-streaming their way in).
All were anxious to talk about existential survival. I’ve done similar meetings recently in Norwich, North Notts, Stroud and Hebden Bridge — each making the same point: it is climate change that most threatens our children’s prospects, not Brexit.
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