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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Labour must not deliver ‘politics as usual’ over Brexit
If Labour joins the Tories in bungling Brexit and delivers anything other than what the people voted for, it will destroy its core support and boost the far right, argues TONY CONWAY
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
AT THE time of writing, the government via the inept Theresa May was still attempting to renegotiate its deal with the EU. At the same time this dysfunctional government was failing in its objectives of delivering trade deals. Indeed a far-reaching deal with China has been put at risk by the infantile bellicose statements harking back to imperialist gunboat diplomacy emanating from the Ministry of Defence.
Most recently Defra discovered that the country hadn’t got enough of the right sort of pallets to export and move foodstuffs. And there is “failing Grayling” who has gifted Eurotunnel £33 million following the award of a shipping contract to a ferry company that had no ships.
As a former PCS negotiator I am only too aware that this government and those senior civil servants that support it are, by and large, inept. It is evident that government failed to listen to those trade unions that stated that austerity had to stop and be reversed if there were to be enough skilled staff to do the necessary negotiations with the EU and other nations.
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