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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The far-right are more dangerous than you think
Ukip might be portrayed as a gang of clowns, but the party and its continental equivalents are poised to clean up in the Euro polls, writes STEVEN WALKER
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
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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
he BBC3 documentary EDL Girls, screened earlier this month, is another illustration of how far extreme right political parties have travelled in recent years.
Recent events in Ukraine have been largely portrayed as a popular democratic success rather than the appointment of an unelected government containing a large number of neonazi and anti-semitic parties.
And while the mainstream media might call Nigel Farage and Ukip "loonies and fruitcakes," portraying Ukip members as a fringe minority of eccentric and open misogynists and racists as caricatures, the truth is far more sinister.
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