Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
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Close our schools now
If we are going to have a second lockdown we need to do it properly — and that means closing schools, colleges and universities, argues ROBERT POOLE
If we are going to have a lockdown — and we should have had one two weeks ago — we need to do it properly and that means closing schools, colleges and universities
CHRISTOPHE DOMEC speaks to the France Insoumise politician facing constant persecution from French authorities
It can be hard to discern conspiracy theory from reality and under the Trump regime the two might just be the same thing, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
ALAN SIMPSON says responses to the Golders Green attacks risk deepening divides across our country
Capturing the general strikes history is a vital part of our struggles today, posits HENRY FOWLER
On a tumultuous day in Welsh politics DAVID NICHOLSON looks at the key issues for progressives in Wales to grapple with the rise of the far right
WHEN I was asked to write this monthly column it did cross my mind that there might be times when I might struggle to fill the column inches. It seems now that the opposite is the case.
I’ve just binned the first draft of a diatribe against the callous Tory school-dinner-lifters as news comes in of a second lockdown. Though if I had been more conscientious perhaps I should have written this piece in the summer and filed it away in anticipation as it was so blindingly obvious what was going to happen.
Nadine Dorries would disagree of course, she said that only “a crystal ball” could have predicted the need for a second lockdown. Or perhaps only Sage or Independent Sage or every armchair scientist having a socially distanced pint down the pub or my four-year-old in between shooting imaginary webs in his Halloween Spiderman costume could have predicted it.
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