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 Domestic Abuse Bill: Nice try but it doesn’t come close
New plans to address domestic violence do not take into account the wider issues of societal misogyny and economic dependence that leave women vulnerable to aggressive men, says ANNA FISHER
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
LAST YEAR 1.2 million women were victims of domestic abuse in England and Wales. Approximately two women are killed by their male partner or ex-partner every single week.
The figures for rape and sexual harassment in schools and elsewhere are equally shocking. Almost all the perpetrators are male and most victims are female.
This presents a picture of breakdown of social order, of men and boys having almost total impunity to terrorise women and girls with the full sanction of the state.
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