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PROTESTERS FACE ARREST IN RALLY FOR PAL ACTION
THOUSANDS of people are expected to demonstrate against the ban on Palestine Action in central London today despite police lifting their pause on arresting the sit-down sign-holders. Protest group Defend Our Juries said the demonstration is to show...
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ISRAELI BLITZ ON BEIRUT A THREAT TO IRAN TRUCE
ISRAEL issued new evacuation orders for swathes of the Lebanese capital Beirut yesterday, a day after intense bombing of residential areas that killed at least 253 people and wounded more than a thousand. Its escalation of the war threatened to derail...
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2 WEEKS’ RESPITE BUT BOMBS STILL FALL ON LEBANON
ISRAEL launched new devastating strikes on Lebanon yesterday, killing at least 87 people, as Iran and the US agreed to a two-week ceasefire. World leaders rushed to celebrate news that their nations would find some relief from the oil crisis from the...
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14 ARRESTED FOR PEACE BLOCKADE AT LAKENHEATH
FOURTEEN peace activists calling for an end to British complicity in the US’s war were arrested yesterday at Lakenheath RAF base as Donald Trump escalated his violent rhetoric in the war on Iran, claiming “a whole civilisation will die...
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US COLONEL JOINS LAKENHEATH VIGIL AGAINST IRAN WAR
A RETIRED US Army colonel apologised for her country’s illegal wars as a week-long peace camp outside RAF Lakenheath drew to a close yesterday. The camp, which maintained a 24-7 vigil outside the base from April 1, is believed to station US nuclear...
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NOWAK: ACT NOW TO PUT STOP TO TRUMPLFLATION
UNIONS have called for a targeted gas price cap to prevent thousands of job losses in key industries due to soaring energy prices caused by the US and Israel’s illegal war on Iran. The TUC backed temporary bills support for sectors whose energy...
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KEBEDE WARNING TO LABOUR: WE’LL TURN TO GREENS
THE Greens have won teachers’ support from Labour because the country “needs change,” leader Daniel Kebede said yesterday as he lambasted a government that was failing education. In his closing speech to the National Education Union’s (NEU) annual...
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A DARK DAY FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES
TWO pro-Palestine campaigners being found guilty of breaching protest conditions yesterday is “a huge setback for civil liberties,” supporters said. Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) director Ben Jamal and Stop the War vice-chair Chris Nineham made...
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LABOUR ‘SHIFTING GOALPOSTS ON PAY DEAL,’ WARNS BMA
THE British Medical Association (BMA) accused the government yesterday of “moving the goalposts” at the last minute on a pay and jobs deal as the union moves to ballot senior doctors in England over strike action. PM Sir Keir Starmer has accused...
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STARMER IS ‘LYING’ OVER WAR ON IRAN
SIR KEIR STARMER is “lying to the British public” on the war on Iran that has “detonated a bomb” on the world’s economy, campaigners charged yesterday. The comments came as the Prime Minister insisted Britain would not get “dragged into the Iran war”...
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Together we stand...
HALF a million people have taken part in the biggest demonstration ever against the far right, campaigners said. Protesters sent a clear message to the organised far right, saying “No to racism, no to Trump” and “Refugees welcome” as they marched...
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STAND TOGETHER
THOUSANDS are expected to take part in the biggest anti-racist march in a generation for the Together Alliance demonstration in central London today. Protesters will be joined by musicians, actors, authors, politicians, trade unions and campaigners as...
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STARMER URGED TO GET TOUGH ON WAR PRIVATEERS
PROFITEERING companies benefiting from the US-Israeli war on Iran must be taxed to help with the soaring cost of living, campaign groups and unions demanded yesterday. They urged PM Sir Keir Starmer to “pull out all the stops” to mitigate the crisis...
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MPs: END US OIL SIEGE ON CUBA
MORE than 100 MPs have voiced “grave concern” over Donald Trump’s Cuba oil blockade, calling on PM Sir Keir Starmer to oppose the US president’s “collective punishment” of its civilian population. Ministers were urged to reject Washington’s threat to...
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WORKERS CANNOT PAY PRICE FOR WAR
WORKING people must not pay the price for the war of aggression against Iran, TUC leader Paul Nowak warned yesterday. Speaking after Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled a limited and vague package of support for families hit by higher fuel prices on...
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FIRES OF HATE
CAMPAIGNERS condemned an “appalling” arson attack on four Jewish community ambulances yesterday, calling for unity against hatred and racism. The incident in Golders Green, north-west London, was being treated as an anti-semitic hate crime by the...
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Act now to avoid Iran war cost crunch
UNIONS urged the government to “do everything it can” to deescalate the US-Iran war and set up an emergency taskforce to deal with the emerging economic shock and energy crisis already threatening thousands of jobs in Britain. The TUC called on the...
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THOUSANDS PUSH BACK ON LABOUR’S IRAN ‘AGGRESSION’
NATIONWIDE protests against Britain’s involvement in the Iran war will be held today after Tehran slammed its “participation in aggression.” Huge crowds will condemn horrific attacks that have left thousands dead and have sparked a global energy...
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IT’S TIME TO HIT RESET
LABOUR’S left has united to demand a “major reset,” demanding the government take a different path to deliver for working people. The moves comes as the leader of Unite, one of the party’s largest affiliates, said an early move to ditch Prime Minister...
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YOUR TIME IS RUNNING OUT
LABOUR is “running out of time” because it appears to back the Establishment over working people, former deputy premier Angela Rayner has claimed in a fresh blow to PM Sir Keir Starmer. Ms Rayner, widely understood to be preparing a leadership bid if...
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SNUB TRUMP
PRESSURE on Labour mounted yesterday to scrap King Charles’s state visit to Washington because of the US war of aggression against Iran. Campaigners and senior MPs united to demand that PM Sir Keir Starmer pull the plug on the trip as the “special...
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BRITAIN COMPLICIT IN GAZA GENOCIDE, FINDS CORBYN’S TRIBUNAL REPORT
MINISTERS should face investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for failing to prevent a genocide in Gaza, Jeremy Corbyn’s Gaza Tribunal has said. The former Labour leader predicted that the landmark investigation will have a profound...
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DAVEY BLASTED FOR BRITISH NUKE PLAN
ANTI-WAR campaigners hit back yesterday at Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey’s calls for Britain to build its own nuclear deterrent, warning his plans were “a disaster” that would provoke further wars. Peace activists slammed the proposals, saying the...
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WAR SPURS NEW COST OF LIVING CRISIS
TEN straight days of high oil and gas prices are pushing households into another cost-ofliving crisis, campaigners warned yesterday, as costs suffered from the US-Israel attack on Iran. The warning came as Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she had asked...
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PA BAN MAKES A JOKE OF ‘TERROR’
LIFT the ban on Palestine Action immediately, campaigners urged today, after official data showed terror arrests have surged to their highest level on record since the group’s proscription. The government’s data shows 3,034 arrests were made in 2025,...
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CLEAR LABOUR OF MANDELSON ROT AT THE TOP
ANGRY MPs demanded the clique controlling the Labour Party be cleared out yesterday as further details of disgraced Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to Washington were made public. These included the revelation that the grasping peer had...
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LAMMY ATTACK ON JURIES SAVAGED BY LAWYERS AND MPs
DAVID LAMMY’S attack on the right to jury trial was slammed by MPs yesterday as it returned to the Commons for a second reading. One MP detailed her rape ordeal for the first time, accusing ministers of using victims as a “cudgel” to push through...
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IRAN WAR GOING TO HIT WORKERS IN THE POCKET, ADMITS STARMER
WAR is coming for working people in the form of pressure on living standards, Sir Keir Starmer conceded yesterday. The Prime Minister warned British workers to be prepared for hardship as oil prices soared as a result of the continuing USIsrael...
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BRITAIN’S PUBLIC SAY NO TO WAR
SIR KEIR STARMER attempted to make friends with Donald Trump yesterday after the warmongering US president criticised Britain’s slowness in joining the US-Israeli attack on Iran. The Prime Minister spoke to Mr Trump about the countries’ military...
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MARCHERS TELL PM: WORK FOR PEACE NOT WAR
MAJOR demonstrations will be held outside the US embassy and at RAF Fairford today amid growing fears Donald Trump’s war on Iran will kill hundreds of thousands. Campaigners warned that Britain was at a “dangerous turning point” as US-Israeli bombings...
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TRUMP AND NETANYAHU RISK DRAGGING WORLD INTO A ‘FOREVER WAR’
THE world risks being dragged into “forever war” by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu and only citizens standing up for peace can stop it, an Israeli MP warned yesterday. Knesset member Ofer Cassif of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) told the...
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MPs MAKE BID TO BLOCK WAR DRIVE
LEFT MPs moved yesterday to block Britain from being dragged deeper into the escalating attack against Iran. Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tabled a Commons Bill to require MPs’ approval before allowing foreign militaries to use British military...
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DITCH TRUMP
SIR Keir Starmer was urged to ditch Donald Trump yesterday as left politicians and campaigners warned the US President’s illegal war in Iran will raise energy bills and worsen public services. The PM’s decision to open British military bases to the...
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‘DEVASTATING’
WAR spread across the Middle East yesterday as the United States and Israel continued to pound Iran while Tehran and allied groups retaliated with missiles at targets across the region. Iran has long threatened to drag the region into total war if...
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STOP TRUMP’S CRIMINAL WAR ■ US and Israel launch unprovoked attack ■ Iranian leader killed ■ Israel bombs school, killing over 140 ■ Emergency rally for peace
DONALD TRUMP plunged the Middle East into war over the weekend, joining Israel in launching a massive aerial bombardment of Iran. Iran confirmed its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed as it launched retaliatory missile strikes...
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WIN TRANSFORMS BRITISH POLITICS
GREEN leader Zack Polanski said yesterday’s Gorton and Denton by-election result will “transform the face of British politics” as Labour MPs, unions and campaign groups called for Sir Keir Starmer to resign. His party’s winning candidate Hannah...
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NHS MATERNITY SERVICES ‘FAILING MUMS AND BABIES’
NHS maternity services are failing women and babies through a reluctance to admit mistakes, racism and poor staff relationships, a government-ordered investigation revealed yesterday. An interim report published by Baroness Amos, leading the National...
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LABOUR BRACES FOR BRUISING AT THE BALLOT BOX
SIR KEIR STARMER’S future is once more on a knife-edge as voters in Manchester go to the polls in a by-election that seems too close to call. Last-minute polls in the city’s Gorton and Denton constituency, which tomorrow chooses a replacement for...
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REFORM’S WAR ON WORKERS
WAR on the workers was declared by Reform UK yesterday. The far-right party’s deputy leader Richard Tice pledged the repeal of employment rights and new protections for renters in a fresh commitment to hardline Thatcherite deregulation. Mr Tice, who...
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‘Don’t make example of Gaza protest pair’
PEACE campaigners warned the government yesterday that “we will not stop” in the face of attacks on free speech as they denounced an attempt to “make an example” out of two major leaders of Britain’s Palestine solidarity movement. Activists were...
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STANCE ON GAZA WILL HIT LABOUR IN MAY ELECTIONS, SAY COUNCILLORS
MORE than 1,000 councillors from across all parties pledged “the mass movement for Palestine is not going away” over the weekend, as Labour heads for a crunch in May’s local elections. Local officials from around the country joined the call on...
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Manifesto Press Red Books Day 26 contributors include
Phil Katz (Manifesto Press author and commissioning editor) At the age of 13, when a Jewish boy reached the age to be considered a man, my mother gave me £5 to go ‘into town’ to buy literature from Colletts the communist bookshop, as her father had...
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ARRESTED
BRITAIN’S scandal-ridden monarchy was handed a historic humiliation yesterday with the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Pressure mounted on King Charles and his heir Prince William to come clean on what...
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‘POLITICAL PRESSURE’ ON CPS TO CHARGE ACTIVISTS
EXCLUSIVE by Berny Torre MINISTERS are applying political pressure on the CPS to prosecute Palestine Action supporters after the High Court ruled that the Home Office acted unlawfully when it banned the direct action group under terror laws last...
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LABOUR TOGETHER SCANDAL KNOCKING AT SARWAR’S DOOR
SCOTTISH Labour leader Anas Sarwar’s claim that he did not know the minister at the centre of the Labour Together spy scandal was rubbished as “not credible” by the SNP yesterday. Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons sparked outcry in Scottish politics...
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PM SLAMMED FOR IGNORING LABOUR TOGETHER ROW
PRIME Minister Sir Keir Starmer was slammed yesterday for failing to sack a minister at the centre of the Labour Together spy scandal. The think tank was run by Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons MP when it reportedly hired a PR firm to dig up dirt...
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STOP THE FACTION FIGHTS AND START LISTENING, UNIONS AND MPs TELL PM
LABOUR MPs, unions and campaigners have urged Sir Keir Starmer to end the “rotten culture of nasty factionalism” in Downing Street. Senior parliamentarians and the leaders of several affiliated unions told the embattled PM the authoritarian approach...
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A VICTORY FOR FREEDOM FOR ALL
JUDGES struck down the ban on Palestine Action as unlawful yesterday in a landmark review celebrated as a “monumental victory” by activists. Defend Our Juries (DOJ) said it came after Britain’s “largest sustained civil disobedience campaign” to Lift...
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BILLIONAIRES ARE THE PROBLEM, NOT IMMIGRANTS
ANTI-UNION billionaire tax exile Sir Jim Ratcliffe was slammed from all sides yesterday after he complained that the “UK is being colonised” by immigrants. The Manchester United coowner has raked in a fortune from Ineos, which has benefited from...
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NO RESPITE FOR SCANDAL-HIT PM
PRIME MINISTER Sir Keir Starmer has conceded he has lost control of his government as he became embroiled in a fresh scandal over turning a blind eye to friends of paedophiles. A close ally of the premier admitted that he no longer had the strength to...
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STARMER URGED TO JUMP TO LEFT
LABOUR’S “soft left” was moving to assert control over the government yesterday as they took advantage of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s perilous political predicament. After Sir Keir hung on to his post, at least temporarily, by strong-arming the...
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SARWAR STICKS THE KNIFE IN TO AILING STARMER
PRIME Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government was locked in a death spiral yesterday as Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar led growing calls for the premier to quit while another top aide fled Downing Street. In an atmosphere redolent of the last days...
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STARMER URGED TO FOLLOW TOP AIDE – AND QUIT
LABOUR MPs urged Sir Keir Starmer to follow in the footsteps of his righthand man Morgan McSweeney after the adviser finally resigned yesterday over Lord Peter Mandelson’s most recent scandal. The PM’s former chief of staff said Sir Keir’s decision to...
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TIME TO GO
LABOUR MPs urged Sir Keir Starmer to sack his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney as detectives yesterday searched Lord Peter Mandelson’s London home over his alleged leaks to paedophile financier Jeffery Epstein. Former deputy leader Baroness Harriet...
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FILTON SIX WALK FREE FROM COURT
HUMAN rights campaigners and MPs hailed a “huge victory” for six Filton 24 activists in the face of “extraordinary political pressure” after a jury acquitted them of all charges yesterday. Following eight full days of deliberation, defendants in the...
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‘FRANKLY SHAMEFUL’
BRITAIN’S politicians have written to the Trade Secretary over serious concerns about a reported move towards “unblocking” arms licences to Israel, campaigners said yesterday. In the letter, led by Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP Steve Witherden, 58...
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LABOUR ROCKED BY MANDELSON LEAKS
LABOUR MPs questioned Lord Peter Mandelson’s continuing influence over ministers after he was reported to police yesterday for allegedly leaking confidential Downing Street files to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. The Metropolitan Police has...
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INQUIRY PLEA AFTER NEW EPSTEIN SHOCK
DEMANDS for the royal family to join Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in the dock grew yesterday as the government piled pressure on the King’s brother to reveal all he knows about paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. The Republic campaign group said that...
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‘WE MARCH AGAIN’
THOUSANDS are set to march in the first national demonstration for Palestine of the year today, with protesters also carrying the message: “No to war in Iran,” despite planned far-right action. Groups including the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC)...
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TOTAL SHUTDOWN
A MEGAPICKET organised by Strike Map in support of the striking Birmingham bin workers will close down all the city’s refuse sites this morning as thousands of trade unionists are expected to attend the biggest show of support since their walkouts...
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BY-ELECTION ‘FIGHT FOR BRITAIN’S SOUL’
MANCHESTER does not want you, Labour deputy leader Lucy Powell told Reform party by-election candidate Matthew Goodwin yesterday. Speaking after Nigel Farage adopted the academic turned race-baiting pundit (pictured left) as candidate in the Gorton...
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Call for inquiry as Gaza protesters end hunger strike
MPs CALLED for an inquiry into the Palestine Action hunger strikers yesterday as the last one ended his strike after being given hours to live. Umer Khalid, 22, told of ending his food and water fast after being rushed to hospital and given a “choice...
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STOP CREATION OF ‘BRITISH FBI’
LIVE facial recognition technology will be rolled out across the country under plans for the biggest overhaul in policing in nearly 200 years. MPs, unions and campaigners voiced civil liberty fears as Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood set out plans to...
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LABOUR IN CRISIS AFTER BURNHAM MP BID BLOCKED
PRIME MINISTER Sir Keir Starmer was slammed as a “weak leader” yesterday after Labour blocked Andy Burnham to stand as a parliamentary candidate and unions warned democracy was being stifled within the party. Trade union representatives and...
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Unions warn Starmer: stop the stitch-ups
UNIONS and Labour MPs warned Sir Keir Starmer against trying another “stitch-up” yesterday, amid reports the PM is trying to block Andy Burnham’s potential return to Westminster. Britain’s biggest union Unison called for an end to Labour...
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FURY AT TRUMP’S BOARD OF WAR
DONALD TRUMP’S Board of Peace was slammed as a “board of war” by campaigners yesterday as the US president launched it at Davos. With the US president in exclusive control and member- ship mainly comprising despots and farright leaders, the board’s...
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PM blusters back at Trump threats
BRITAIN will not “yield to pressure” from Donald Trump to abandon its values, Sir Keir Starmer pledged yesterday as the transatlantic row over the US president’s attempt to grab Greenland intensified. This came as Mr Trump ruled out the use of force...
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JOB WOES DEEPEN AS UNEMPLOYMENT NEARS 5-YEAR HIGH
UNEMPLOYMENT rose to its highest rate in nearly five years with government intervention needed to prevent high regional rates spreading across the country, unions and experts warned yesterday. As 21,000 Job Centre staff began balloting for strikes,...
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Shock report into soaring political inequality
BILLIONAIRES must be “taxed out of existence,” campaigners have demanded as new data found that their wealth grew to the highest peak ever in 2025. In a report published by Oxfam yesterday at the start of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the British...
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BLOW TO NHS AS RAAC WOES FORCE DELAYS ON HOSPITALS
FURTHER delays in replacing hospitals built with Raac concrete are a “blow” to NHS staff, with campaigners calling for swifter action to prevent the “severe risk of collapsing floors and ceilings.” The government’s spending watchdog announced...
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LEFT TO DIE: CORRIDORS CRISIS IN NHS
NURSES have shared harrowing accounts of a “broken system” of corridor care that “tortures” patients, with people left in chairs for days and one patient choking to death, unnoticed. Publishing new findings on the practice today, the Royal College of...
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IRAN ACCUSES US OF USING ISIS TO STIR UP VIOLENCE
ISRAEL and the United States have sent Islamic State (Isis) terrorists to take part in the mass uprisings, Iranian authorities alleged yesterday. This comes as more observers call out the hypocrisy of nations who slam Iran’s clampdown on protests but...
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BRITONS RALLY TO DEFY COMPLICITY IN US WAR DRIVE
PEACE protesters joined demonstrations around the country this weekend, calling for an end to Britain’s complicity in the US war machine. Solidarity groups, campaigners and union leaders led rallies on Saturday in Edinburgh, London and Leeds, where...
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DROP LAWLESS TRUMP OR RISK GLOBAL OIL WAR
PEACE campaigners have warned Sir Keir Starmer to break with US President Donald Trump now before Britain is embroiled in a “full-scale conflict” over “oil and empire” as Britons join protests around the country on Saturday. The Prime Minister’s tepid...
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HUMILIATION
BRITAIN’S so-called special relationship with the US was branded a “humiliation” yesterday as PM Sir Keir Starmer cosied up to Donald Trump’s aggression over Venezuela and Greenland. The Labour leader faced a barrage of criticism after he declined to...
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