Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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From Covid-19 to a federal, socialist republic of Britain
TOM MORRISON argues we cannot squander this crisis — let’s not limit our horizons and break with Westminster and Holyrood for good
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
PRIME MINISTER Boris Johnson is currently visiting Scotland, hoping to show the strength of the union.
His government’s woeful handling of the coronavirus crisis and the comparably better handling of the crisis by the devolved administrations would suggest otherwise.
While we may reserve criticism for the Scottish government’s initial tailgating of Johnson’s dithering approach to this crisis, moving wildly from the initial disastrous “herd immunity” strategy to the supposed following of more conventional science, it takes a certain breed of fool to think that the overseeing of thousands of needless deaths conjures up images of anything approaching strength.
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