The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
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Today’s interconnected conflicts are enriching the arms industry while pushing the entire world towards permanent militarisation, argues ROGER McKENZIE
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The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
BRITAIN’S best-known luxury car may be best-known for carrying icons of the past. But Thunderbirds, it should be remembered, was set in the mid-2060s.
Now Eva Bolander (pictured), the SNP Lord Provost of Glasgow, will be ferried around the schemes of Strathclyde in a six-figure Rolls-Royce Ghost, “gifted” to the city council by an anonymous philanthropist. Very good, m’lady.
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