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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The Brexit Party betrayal and the limp Lib Dem launch played out over the rolling crisis that is the Tory election campaign: NEIL FINDLAY MSP looks back at the week that was
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
WELL that’s the first week of the election over and what a week it’s been. The election started well for Labour with soon-to-be-impeached President Donald Trump attacking Jeremy Corbyn whilst giving his support to Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson — what a stroke of genius, Labour couldn’t buy such positive PR.
Trump’s “searing” denunciation of Corbyn was Shakespearean in its eloquence — judge the quality for yourself: “Corbyn would be so bad for your country. He’d be so bad, he’d take you in such a bad way. He’d take you into such bad places,” Trump said. Now as political rhetoric goes it’s not quite up there with Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech but it was still one of Trump’s more coherent ones.
We then had Jacob Rees “Mogadon” telling the world that the victims of the Grenfell disaster should have “ignored fire service advice” and used “common sense” to get out the blazing inferno that took so many lives. In effect saying people died because they were too stupid to save themselves.
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