As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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Hard truths and the Covid crisis
As millions become aware that capitalism cannot of itself generate the impulse to solve the problems posed by pandemic, then the drive to find an alternative grows stronger, argues NICK WRIGHT
DESPERATE MEASURES: Anti-Covid fumigation in a poor neighborhood of Harare, Zimbabwe, last Monday
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
IF NOTHING else the precipitous fall in share prices might concentrate the minds of our ruling class on the growing dangers that a new and more deadly mutant virus presents.
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana and Eswatini have been added to Britain’s red list, in the hope that the omicron Covid strain can be shut out.
People from these states are compelled to quarantine for 10 days and flights into Britain from these places are now banned.
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