With the death of Pope Francis, the world loses not only a church leader but also a moral compass

NO prime minister has entered Downing Street with a more compromised mandate, with scarcely a breeze to lift his sails.
The joy at the end of Tory rule, symbolised by the loss of the constituencies once represented by David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, cannot disguise the less than ringing endorsement of Keir Starmer’s Labour.
Nor can the iniquities of the first-past-the-post system, which gifted Labour a Commons landslide over a divided right, mask the fact that Starmer takes office with his electoral coalition already crumbling.

Incredibly, US Republican states are systematically dismantling child labour protections, with children transformed back into the cheap, disposable workers of the Dickens era, reports ANDREW MURRAY

