A survey circulated by a far-right-linked student group has sparked outrage, with educators, historians and veterans warning that profiling teachers for their political views echoes fascist-era practices. FEDERICA ADRIANI reports
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When will we have justice for spycop victims in Scotland?
The SNP has refused to listen to calls for an inquiry into political policing, says NEIL FINDLAY
We now know that 18 undercover police officers posed as protesters during the 2005 protests against the G8 meeting in Gleneagles
In reopening relations with China, the PM showed an uncharacteristic grasp of power, proportion and Britain’s diminished place in the world – a lesson many in Westminster still refuse to learn, says ANDREW MURRAY
Dockers from Italy, Greece and beyond will stage co-ordinated port blockades on February 6, declaring ‘we don’t work for war’ – in a call in solidarity with Palestine. ALFIO BERNABEI reports
The British Prime Minister’s Beijing visit marked the end of a long diplomatic hiatus and produced tangible, if limited, economic results, says KEITH BENNETT
Schoolchildren who joined a nationwide anti-Trump walkout learned more outside the classroom than in it but could still be penalised, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The suicide of Tamara Jade Logon after her disability benefits were wrongly withdrawn is the latest in a series of deaths in which coroners have cited DWP failings, exposing a pattern of preventable harm, says DYLAN MURPHY
THIS week has been a bad week for justice in Scotland.
Tilly Gifford, an environmental campaigner who was spied upon, followed and approached to be recruited to report on fellow social justice activists, had her case for judicial review of the Scottish and Westminster governments’ failure to allow Scottish victims access to a public inquiry rejected by the Court of Session.
Her lawyers argued that the decisions by both the Westminster and Scottish governments breached her human rights and were unlawful.
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