Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
Crumbs off the table
Attempts at haggling to win a deal over the Scottish Budget still leave public services short-changed, writes MATT KERR
ET OFF LIGHTLY: Finance Secretary Shona Robison announcing the draft Budget for 2025-26 to MSPs at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh
A judge in a German court ruled that the ban activity imposed on renowned Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawful, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
UNLESS you would like to live forever in a cave in some far-off wilderness, never seeing a soul or even reading this paper, we negotiate.
Even our interactions with other species are a negotiation of sorts, or at least they were at the point of domestication, with the notable exception of cats of course — they appear to dictate terms.
Part of my own domestication involved banding together with my sister to negotiate our pocket money from the Old Man. Having spent his working day negotiating, you’d have thought he just couldn’t be bothered — that was certainly our calculation.
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