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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Starmer’s ‘patriotic turn’ – and what it means
Signalling an end to the Corbyn period’s politics of peace and internationalism is obviously part of the new management’s thinking, but how will such vacuous slogan-peddling fare in an era of multiple crises, asks 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
IT WILL “let torturers off the hook.” The verdict of former chief of defence staff Lord Guthrie on the Overseas Operations Bill is damning.
If you feel in need of political cover for opposing this legislation, you cannot find better.
Yet still the Labour Party whipped its MPs merely to abstain, and Keir Starmer sacked three junior frontbenchers for voting against.
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