SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
Where the wastelands end
It is climate change that most threatens our children’s prospects – not Brexit, writes ALAN SIMPSON
UGLY scenes outside Parliament have made the place look and feel like the Siege of Troy. But around the country bigger issues already fill the landscape.
A “climate emergency” conference in Lancaster drew in some 200-300 local authority and climate groups (along with similar numbers live-streaming their way in).
All were anxious to talk about existential survival. I’ve done similar meetings recently in Norwich, North Notts, Stroud and Hebden Bridge — each making the same point: it is climate change that most threatens our children’s prospects, not Brexit.
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