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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I want to ride my bicycle: smart cities and the Danish concept of ‘hygge’
City planners could learn a lot from Copenhagen’s approach to cycling, argues COLIN TODHUNTER
TRANQUIL: A cyclist in Copenhagen
[Pic: Kristoffer Trolle]
Media Lens at 25: David Cromwell and David Edwards reflect on a quarter-century of media criticism, explaining why independent journalism is more important than ever
by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family
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
INDIAN cities are in crisis. Spend any length of time in a large city there and you will notice the overcrowding, the power and water shortages and, during monsoon, the streets that transform into stinking, litter-strewn rivers.
At times, these cities can be almost unbearable to live in. Little wonder then that the concept of “smart cities” is taking hold among policy-makers, however fundamentally flawed or cynical the strategy to implement the notion seems to be.
And, not least of course, there is the horrendous traffic chaos and congestion, the choking pollution and the increasing number of massive concrete flyovers — monstrosities that have taken their place among so many other architectural monstrosities that blight the typical Indian city.
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