The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
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Brexit, Boris Johnson and a British state in crisis
Brexit and Boris Johnson have thrown the 'permanent state' into permanent crisis — but it will never side with the left, explains KEVIN OVENDEN
Media Lens at 25: David Cromwell and David Edwards reflect on a quarter-century of media criticism, explaining why independent journalism is more important than ever
by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family
The International Court of Justice has delivered its clearest ruling yet that the right to strike is protected under international law, write Professor TONIA NOVITZ, Professor KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC
Emergency phone alerts could help Britain respond to rising wildfire risk, but Australia’s experience suggests they work best as part of a broader strategy, write ELLIOT CONVERY-FISHER and KATE PARKINS
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
“WE are dealing with a political generation which has no serious experience of bad times and is frankly cavalier about precipitating events they cannot then control, but feel they might exploit.”
Britain’s former ambassador to the EU Sir Ivan Rogers could scarcely be more scathing of the country’s political class in his book, “9 Lessons in Brexit.”
And that was before the forced resignation last week under a Twitter tirade from Donald Trump of Britain’s ambassador to Washington, Sir Kim Darroch, following leaks of his unvarnished cables.
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NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
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