A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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PETER FROST unearths some nasty truths about just who makes what from poppy and other military charities
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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
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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