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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Close our schools now
If we are going to have a second lockdown we need to do it properly — and that means closing schools, colleges and universities, argues ROBERT POOLE
If we are going to have a lockdown — and we should have had one two weeks ago — we need to do it properly and that means closing schools, colleges and universities
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
WHEN I was asked to write this monthly column it did cross my mind that there might be times when I might struggle to fill the column inches. It seems now that the opposite is the case.
I’ve just binned the first draft of a diatribe against the callous Tory school-dinner-lifters as news comes in of a second lockdown. Though if I had been more conscientious perhaps I should have written this piece in the summer and filed it away in anticipation as it was so blindingly obvious what was going to happen.
Nadine Dorries would disagree of course, she said that only “a crystal ball” could have predicted the need for a second lockdown. Or perhaps only Sage or Independent Sage or every armchair scientist having a socially distanced pint down the pub or my four-year-old in between shooting imaginary webs in his Halloween Spiderman costume could have predicted it.
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