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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Who's afraid of a general election? The rich
KEVIN OVENDEN argues the revolt in France shows how powerful a threat the left are to the EU elite, which is why their apologists are doing everything to avert a general election in Britain
France's President Emmanuel Macron (right) attends a meeting with the representatives of the banking sector at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, yesterday
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
“O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An’ foolish notion”
ROBERT BURNS’S poem sprang to mind on several occasions over the last few days.
First, on reading a plea from social democratic MEPs to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. It was to abandon the party’s manifesto commitment, spurn the result of the 2016 referendum and embrace the Europe policy of the Liberal Democrats.
The letter was headed by former Greek prime minister George Papandreou. It was both part of a coordinated push to turn Theresa May’s Brexit crisis into Corbyn’s and Labour’s and also a reply to his speech in Lisbon last week to European social democratic parties.
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As heavy industry flees and public-sector strikes paralyse the nation, the French leader’s increasingly desperate attempts to rule without a majority reveal the deep crisis at the heart of European liberal democracy, writes KEVIN OVENDEN