In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
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Education: Freedom or conformity?
While the right fights culture wars in our schools, teacher ROBERT POOLE asks would their time and money not be better spent on helping our young people?
A police officer outside Pimlico Academy School, west London, where students have staged a walkout in protest over a school uniform policy that they claim is discriminatory and racist
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Rising temperatures and human activity are making life far harder for these vital pollinators. ALEX DITTRICH explains
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners co-founder MIKE JACKSON talks to Matt Kerr about the enduring power of Pride, protest and trade unionism
Behind the language of military strategy is a confrontation that risks drawing the wider Middle East into war, says STEVE BISHOP
AS LOCKDOWN starts to ease up — for everywhere other than my home town of Bolton that is — the Tories have decided that there is one group of people who need locking up. Children.
The Department for Education is spending £10 million on new “behaviour hubs,” having a crackdown on mobile phones and threatening to keep kids in school from 8am till 6pm.
It is unsurprising that this creeping authoritarianism comes from an education secretary who keeps a whip on his desk.
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