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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What’s making Labour members and voters so angry is that their democratic wishes are being so blatantly flouted by the PLP, says MICK WHELAN
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
AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN, who served as chancellor of the Exchequer under Arthur Balfour and David Lloyd George, and as foreign secretary under Stanley Baldwin, famously said that an old friend of his, one of Britain’s diplomats in China, told him that an old, and powerful, Chinese curse is: “May you live in interesting times.”
Now that expression — which may well, it seems, not be quite as authentic as Neville Chamberlain’s half-brother would have had us believe — has haunted us this week.
Because, in the days since Britain voted to leave the European Union, we have certainly been living in interesting times.
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