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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The real poppy scandals
PETER FROST unearths some nasty truths about just who makes what from poppy and other military charities
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
So did you wear a poppy? Was it red or white? England and Scotland wore theirs and we still don’t know what, if anything, Fifa are going to do about it, at least at the time I am writing this.
Social media had its share of poppy pressure for and against and the repulsive Britain First once again conned a few naive people to like them on Facebook by pretending they were the brave champions of some threatened right to wear your poppy with pride.
They claim three-and-a-half million supporters and I never believed there were that many stupid people in the whole world but Donald Trump and Nigel Farage have convinced me that is probably a massive underestimate.
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