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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Tipping point or turning point: the choice is still ours
We face a crisis like no other, from bubonic plague outbreaks to an imminent 3 billion climate refugees. We have the solution and it’s to use less and waste less – what we lack is the leadership to get us to the promised land, writes ALAN SIMPSON
Endgame: the UN needs $10bn to avoid 265 million starving this year and climate scientists warn that soon three billion face summers “too hot for humans”
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
WE are in a bad place, a really bad place. The IMF predicts that the Covid-19 pandemic will shrink the global economy by 5 per cent this year, with a cumulative loss of around $9 trillion.
Britain’s Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) records a “lockdown” economic collapse of over 20 per cent and predicts an annual economic contraction of over 12 per cent.
Some 650,000 British workers have already been dropped from official payrolls. Eleven million more wait in the wings, on “furloughed” wages that come to an end in August.
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