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by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
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
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
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
“WHEN I pay for a view, I expect something more interesting than that,” exclaims hearing aid refusenik Mrs Richards, one of Fawlty Towers’s most difficult customers. “That is Torquay, madam,” Basil Fawlty replies.
My impressions of the Devon seaside town have largely been directed by the classic comedy series along with a vague association with Agatha Christie — until my arrival there for the first time on Thursday.
At the RMT LGBT+ conference, which I was in town for, I heard a fascinating presentation of “Gay Torquay” from Kevin Dixon of the Torbay Trades Council. A bit of research turned up other famous residents include Emperor Haile Selassie and Aleister Crowley.
TONY FOX reports from a commemoration of the legendary Battle of Jarama in which four Stockton-on-Tees volunteers fell
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
FRANCIS BECKETT introduces his new play that aims to give its audience a taste of what a far-right triumph would be