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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Is there another country that is so alienated from its own music?
NICK MATTHEWS looks back on the continuing legacy of Alan Bush, the Workers Music Association’s Topic Records and BBC Radio 3
LEGENDS: Maddy Prior, Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2016
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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
THE Tories persist with their attacks on the BBC, despite the fundamentally conservative nature of the institution, and its role as a key part of the state’s ideological apparatus.
This last is what makes the Beeb problematic for the left. However, the sheer range and depth of its coverage means that some amazing stuff does get past the self-censors.
As a great fan of Radio 3, I was recently delighted to hear the late great Norma Waterson and Alan Bush on the same day.
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