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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Who is left in Labour?
The Corbyn surge was a phenomenon of hundreds of thousands — but a liberal surge, rather than a Marxist one. VINCE MILLS looks at the emerging and existing left groups in the Labour Party and their chances of forming a united front for socialism
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
YOU might have heard the one about the man who shouts across the fence to his neighbour during lockdown: “Jez, don’t bother trying to shave that beard off. I have just invented a mask with razors in it. Shove it on and it shaves your face in one go.”
“Hang on, Jon,” Jez replies, “not everybody’s face is the same shape.”
“Don’t worry Jez, it soon will be.”
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