The recent heatwaves revealed how ill-prepared Britain remains for a hotter future – and how unequal the ability to cope with it has become, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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We need a socialism of faster, fairer and greener growth
Peter Hain challenges Britain’s neoliberal orthodoxy and outlines his vision of financial markets ‘harnessed for the common good’
Extreme heat is now one of the defining public health challenges of a warming world, explains Prof IAN WILLIAMS
The US-Israeli conflict with Iran has had far-reaching consequences, including a boost to Pakistan’s regional standing, argues ROGER McKENZIE
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Kate Clark pays tribute to Ricardo, whose life spanned the hopes of Allende’s Chile, the horrors of military dictatorship and decades of campaigning for justice in exile
Keir Starmer's early political life suggests a very different future from the one he ultimately embraced, says KEITH FLETT
After the dismissal of union representatives and years of precarious working conditions, Kimpton Clocktower workers are drawing a line, writes THOMAS BELL
In Britain, as across the world — notably continental Europe — the left has struggled to offer a coherent response to the banking crisis which blew like a whirlwind across the globe from 2007-8.
Despite the cataclysmic failure of neoliberalism which the global banking crisis represented, it hardly incited a resurgence of democratic socialism.
Instead, parliamentary parties of the left slipstreamed the right’s incessant demand for savage cuts. But that just meant heading down the same austerity road at a slower pace, when (as Keynes showed in the 1930s) getting the economy back on the path to growth was always a surer way to sort out the public finances.
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