Israel continues to operate with impunity in what seems to be a brutal and protracted experiment, while much of the world looks on, says RAMZY BAROUD
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Morbid symptoms – the last days of the Johnson regime and ‘Old Corruption’
Johnson and his cronyism has sunk politics to new levels of depravity, says KEITH FLETT
JAMMY: Johnson is reported to be looking to write a column for
the Daily Mail
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
By sticking together, working collectively and building the union, we can weather any uncertainty ahead, writes general secretary of Usdaw PADDY LILLIS
The announcement of a Women’s Justice Board should be cautiously welcomed, writes SABINA PRICE, but we need to see a recognition that our prison system is in crisis and disproportionately punishes some of the most vulnerable people in society
Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely
BORIS JOHNSON resigned as prime minister on July 7 after only narrowly winning a confidence vote of Tory MPs. At that point he could have left office, appointed a caretaker deputy, and gone on holiday.
Instead while Johnson has certainly gone on holiday — several of them — he has remained in post, drawing his prime ministerial salary and using the PM’s country house, Chequers.
About the cost-of-living crisis he has done precisely nothing. He did, however, find time to make yet another visit to Kiev and promise further taxpayers’ money to continue the war there.
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