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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Only Labour will tackle the scourge of child poverty
The Tories are in denial about how their austerity agenda is linked to deepening poverty, writes MATT WILLGRESS
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
FIGURES published earlier this month by the Trussell Trust showed the steepest increase in people needing foodbanks in the past five years.
Then this week the Trussell Trust followed this news up by saying that they expected foodbank demand this Christmas to be even higher than last year, when it provided 186,185 three-day emergency food parcels by its network to people in crisis, with almost 80,000 of those going to children.
A big factor in the increased use of foodbanks is thought to be punitive Conservative policies, like the five-week wait in universal credit, which are pushing people to the point of destitution.
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Labour is deliberately continuing Tory policies that cost us £38 billion more than they save while driving illness rates higher — despite the evidence that previous sanctions doubled suicide attempts, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Social security is lagging further and further behind inflation and our government quite simply does not care, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY