Priti Patel sanctions tactics to turn back migrant boats
THE Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has reportedly approved new tactics to send boats which are carrying migrants to our shores back to France. Under these measures it is reported that…
At least 1,000 migrants attempt to reach safety
RIGHT-WINGERS across the nation must be having conniptions as they hear that yesterday a record number of migrants were seen making their way across the English Channel. Yes, at least…
Germany prepares for the post-Merkel era
WITH three weeks remaining until the German elections it is worth looking at how Germany has fared under Angela Merkel, current Chancellor (since 2005) and leader of the Christian Democratic…
Ed Asner, actor and activist
ED ASNER died this week, and while younger people may only be vaguely familiar with his name, there are those of us who remember him not only for his legendary…
Assault on a woman’s right to choose – the new abortion law in Texas
WOMEN, and men, are justifiably angry and, in many cases, scared as a strict new abortion law came into effect in Texas after the Supreme Court voted down an emergency…
Biden backs Israel
THOSE expecting or hoping for a more pro-Palestinian stance from the Biden administration will have been bitterly disappointed after the first meeting of Biden with the rightwing Israeli Prime Minister…
Isn’t it time to say “enough”?
Susie Granic IN-WORK poverty. Should that even be a thing? When I started work many, many decades ago it was simply assumed that once you left school or university you…
Climate crisis: The role of the US military
WITH the US withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan heading the news, it is time to look again at another effect of the world’s most powerful military force. (Note, most powerful,…