A survey circulated by a far-right-linked student group has sparked outrage, with educators, historians and veterans warning that profiling teachers for their political views echoes fascist-era practices. FEDERICA ADRIANI reports
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I do not like politics wrapped in any national flag
NEIL FINDLAY isn't sure Labour leadership hopeful Rebecca Long Bailey should have invoked 'progressive patriotism'
In reopening relations with China, the PM showed an uncharacteristic grasp of power, proportion and Britain’s diminished place in the world – a lesson many in Westminster still refuse to learn, says ANDREW MURRAY
Dockers from Italy, Greece and beyond will stage co-ordinated port blockades on February 6, declaring ‘we don’t work for war’ – in a call in solidarity with Palestine. ALFIO BERNABEI reports
The British Prime Minister’s Beijing visit marked the end of a long diplomatic hiatus and produced tangible, if limited, economic results, says KEITH BENNETT
Schoolchildren who joined a nationwide anti-Trump walkout learned more outside the classroom than in it but could still be penalised, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The suicide of Tamara Jade Logon after her disability benefits were wrongly withdrawn is the latest in a series of deaths in which coroners have cited DWP failings, exposing a pattern of preventable harm, says DYLAN MURPHY
LAST week Labour leadership hopeful Rebecca Long Bailey raised the issue of “progressive patriotism” as part of her pitch to the party members and affiliated supporters.
For some of us in Scotland this sent us into cold sweats with flashbacks to Jim Murphy’s tenure at the helm of the Scottish Labour Party.
Murphy, fresh from his Irn Bru crate tour of Scotland during the independence referendum, secured the leadership defeating Sarah Boyack and me in the process and soon thereafter delved into the new Labour recipe book to propose a new Clause IV for the Scottish party constitution, inserting the following phrase: “We work for the patriotic interest of the people of Scotland.”
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