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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The climate chasm at the heart of British politics
Major cities underwater, a billion climate refugees — many scientists now expect societal collapse due to climate change. Yet from the political elite here in Britain, we have nothing even approaching acknowledgement, writes IAN SINCLAIR
roups including Friends of the Earth Scotland, Stop Climate Chaos Scotland and Global Justice Now, protest outside Bute House in Edinburgh, after the Scottish government announced it was ditching its target of reducing emissions by 75% by 2030, April 23, 2024
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
WHILE there are significant gaps between reality and the policies of the British governing elite on many issues, arguably none is wider and more terrifying than the ongoing climate chasm.
The frightening reality of the worsening climate crisis should be clear to anyone paying attention. So while the Guardian recently published the headline “Deal to keep 1.5°C hopes alive is within reach, says Cop28 president,” in 2021 the top climate scientist Dr James Hansen had already noted: “There is now no chance whatever of keeping global warming below 1.5°C.”
As he argued earlier this year: “We are not moving into a 1.5°C world, we are briefly passing through it in 2024. We will pass through the 2°C world in the 2030s unless we take purposeful actions to affect the planet’s energy balance.”
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