Trump’s escalation against Venezuela is about more than oil, it is about regaining control over the ‘natural’ zone of influence of the United States at a moment where its hegemony is slipping, argues VIJAY PRASHAD
Labour must not deliver ‘politics as usual’ over Brexit
If Labour joins the Tories in bungling Brexit and delivers anything other than what the people voted for, it will destroy its core support and boost the far right, argues TONY CONWAY
Evidence suggests Lammy’s proposals would come at a high cost: reduced fairness, diminished trust and greater racial inequality in the criminal justice system, argue TARA LAI QUINLAN and KATHARINA KARCHER
From the workhouses of the 1840s to today’s market capitalism, A Christmas Carol remains a sharp critique of charity rationed by class, says KEITH FLETT
The argument for a “significant expansion” of nuclear power will deliver soaring electricity prices that condemn underserved communities to unending hardship and poverty, argues LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The new plan sets out an uncompromising bid for global dominance, casting even allies as obstacles to be subdued, writes DIANE ABBOTT
As we approach the half-anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy, the community gathers to remember loved ones while grappling with mixed emotions surrounding the ongoing deconstruction of the tower and the hopeful plans for a memorial, writes EMMA DENT COAD
AT THE time of writing, the government via the inept Theresa May was still attempting to renegotiate its deal with the EU. At the same time this dysfunctional government was failing in its objectives of delivering trade deals. Indeed a far-reaching deal with China has been put at risk by the infantile bellicose statements harking back to imperialist gunboat diplomacy emanating from the Ministry of Defence.
Most recently Defra discovered that the country hadn’t got enough of the right sort of pallets to export and move foodstuffs. And there is “failing Grayling” who has gifted Eurotunnel £33 million following the award of a shipping contract to a ferry company that had no ships.
As a former PCS negotiator I am only too aware that this government and those senior civil servants that support it are, by and large, inept. It is evident that government failed to listen to those trade unions that stated that austerity had to stop and be reversed if there were to be enough skilled staff to do the necessary negotiations with the EU and other nations.
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