A survey circulated by a far-right-linked student group has sparked outrage, with educators, historians and veterans warning that profiling teachers for their political views echoes fascist-era practices. FEDERICA ADRIANI reports
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The vaccine rollout plans are too important to be left to Tory cronies
Amid the pandemic it is falling on the labour and the trade union movement to build power to hold this negligent government to account, says HELEN O’CONNOR
In reopening relations with China, the PM showed an uncharacteristic grasp of power, proportion and Britain’s diminished place in the world – a lesson many in Westminster still refuse to learn, says ANDREW MURRAY
Dockers from Italy, Greece and beyond will stage co-ordinated port blockades on February 6, declaring ‘we don’t work for war’ – in a call in solidarity with Palestine. ALFIO BERNABEI reports
The British Prime Minister’s Beijing visit marked the end of a long diplomatic hiatus and produced tangible, if limited, economic results, says KEITH BENNETT
Schoolchildren who joined a nationwide anti-Trump walkout learned more outside the classroom than in it but could still be penalised, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The suicide of Tamara Jade Logon after her disability benefits were wrongly withdrawn is the latest in a series of deaths in which coroners have cited DWP failings, exposing a pattern of preventable harm, says DYLAN MURPHY
HOW many more people have to die before the effective management of Covid-19 is taken seriously by those who hold power in this country?
Public-health protection lags far behind protecting private profit and the lessons coming out of Manaus in Brazil serve as a warning that many more will die if business continues as usual.
All opportunities to funnel cash into privatising the pandemic response have been exploited by government.
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