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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Setting out a plan for returning to school
HANK ROBERTS suggests five tests for a safe return to the classroom: retain, remove, restore, rebuild and reinstate
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
BORIS JOHNSON and his government have already failed in their attempt to restart all primary schools on a single common start date of June 1 and with all three chosen groups – reception, year one and year six.
For a safe return, to start with year six would have been better. So would starting it in a test area or areas where the R number (the number of people someone with the virus could infect) is well below one.
Most importantly, it would have been better to propose a start date for a phased return after the measures for tracking and testing were fully established and had been tested for reliability.
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