SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
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Heatwaves show the difficulty of assessing extreme weather events in a changing climate, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
The sun sets in Chesterton, Warwickshire, amid the heatwave in 2020
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
Don’t dismiss Lebanon as a side theatre of this war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN — there are signs Israel has expansion in mind, and it has demonstrated its willingness to expel and kill whole populations
The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on this week’s conference unveiling the findings of the Gaza Tribunal established by Jeremy Corbyn
CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
AT THE end of March the Met Office announced that it was increasing the heatwave threshold for eight English counties by one degree Celsius. It attributed this change to increasing global temperatures due to climate change.
A heatwave is defined as at least three consecutive days with maximum temperatures meeting or exceeding a threshold.
Within Britain, the exact threshold varies across the counties due to their different average temperatures. Counties with higher average temperatures will have a higher threshold required for a heatwave to be declared.
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