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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Refugee-hate and rabble-rousing: who are Patriotic Alternative?
LOUISE RAW talks with anti-fascists who found themselves having to physically protect from attack a Knowsley hotel where refugees were being housed, and lifts the lid on some of the far-right thugs who have been stirring up trouble around the country
Police in riot gear after a demonstration outside the Suites Hotel in Knowsley, Merseyside, where people were protesting against asylum seekers staying at the hotel.
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
JAMES SHAND was 30 years old in when he left his home in Southbrook Road, Streatham, to drive 250 miles to Rhyl in north Wales. He was going, he thought, to meet and have sex with a girl he’d so far only “met” online.
The plan was to pick her up and then drive to Warrington, where Shand had booked a hotel room (with one, double, bed).
But he got the shock of his life instead — north Wales police officers stopped and arrested him on the A55.
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