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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Pledge-breaking Labour's corporate love-in reheats policies discredited over and over again
BERNIE EVANS despairs of a government that is asking the crooks sucking Britain dry how to get the economy back on track
Activists from Fossil Free London and Green New Deal Rising take part in a protest against a third runway at Heathrow, and expansion at Gatwick and Luton, outside Siemens Healthineers in Eynsham, Oxfordshire, where Chancellor Rachel Reeves is laying out Government plans for economic growth, and confirming support for the expansion of Heathrow, January 29, 2025
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
LET’S face it. It’s not as though our hopes have been dashed by this government.
After all, Labour is a party led by someone who deceived thousands of party members into voting for him as leader by making 10 decent pledges, only for almost all of them to be ditched within months.
The same someone who has an affinity for accepting freebies, for himself and party, yet insists he is restoring trust in politics! He takes advice from Blairites, and appointed an ex-banker who claims the money-laundering, customer-exploiting City is the “crown jewel” of the economy, to be his chancellor.
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