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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Nurses are ready to fight — lets make sure they win
As nurses, still on the Covid-19 front line, march for fair pay, HELEN O'CONNOR recalls their struggle so far and urges them to rally around recent victories against the Tory government
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The suicide of Tamara Jade Logon after her disability benefits were wrongly withdrawn is the latest in a series of deaths in which coroners have cited DWP failings, exposing a pattern of preventable harm, says DYLAN MURPHY
HAVING already endured many years of below-inflation pay, NHS nurses have now been told that they will not get a rise. Anger is mounting over their exclusion from last week’s public-sector pay award, as the majority of experienced NHS nurses have not seen any significant improvement in their take-home pay from the last three-year deal.
The flames of anger are being fanned further by pronouncements that nurses have already received a pay rise, back in April. Equally, arguments that nurses “are lucky to have jobs” in the face of mass redundancies are going down like a lead balloon.
Nurses, who have risked their lives during the pandemic, were hopeful that the government would play fair and reward them. But they now feel utterly betrayed and their mood is volatile. It takes a lot to goad the average nurse to anger at the way they are treated, but the Tories have succeeded in this feat.
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