Latest UK

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  Monbiot: Why are England’s water companies pumping out a tide of sewage?

  Because they can
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  Cockburn: The Forever War in Afghanistan is Far From Over

  The US and UK military intervention in the country is ending in a humiliating debacle – this was always likely
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  Pitt: Boris Johnson Says UK Must “Learn to Live With” Rising COVID

  “Learn to live with it” is the new catchphrase coming out of 10 Downing Street — which is, you may recall, exactly the tack Trump wanted to take from the beginning no matter the loss in lives.
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  Abunimah: Labour Party tries to intimidate The Electronic Intifada

  My message to the Labour Party managers, who are part of this establishment, is simple: We will keep doing our job of reporting on you. There is no chance that your attempts at intimidation will succeed
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  Monbiot: Second homes are a gross injustice

  People who own second homes cause homelessness and community death. Yet the government rewards them with lavish subsidies and tax breaks
• Charnley: The working-class voices publishing against the grain

  A report on the new publishing houses getting working-class writers onto the printed page
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  Monbiot: Absolute Zero

  Every new climate pledge is an attempt to distract people from the failed ones it replaces
• Rice: Direct action and the decrepit British establishment

  Faced with an authoritarian government and decaying left-wing establishment, grassroots movements must turn to direct action
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  Cockburn: Britain is a Parasite on Other Countries

  For all the self-congratulatory talk about Britain donating vaccines to the world’s poor, it is in practice knowingly parasitic on their ill-funded health systems
• Driver: Shock Therapy: How Austerity and Privatization Destroy Nations

  Politicians from rich countries have tried to forcefully ‘persuade’ other countries to use an extreme economic system with few public services and very little regulation of big companies
• King: How Manchester’s bus drivers beat ‘fire and rehire’

  After 85 days on strike, Manchester's bus drivers have forced corporate giant Go Ahead to abandon its plans to fire and rehire almost 500 workers
• Thambirajah: Can’t pay, won’t pay

  The fight for an accessible, public education system and affordable non-exploitative student housing must continue beyond the current pandemic
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  Klikauer: The Despotism of Workplace Flexibility

  In 2016, an astonishing 37% of US workers knew their schedule only a week or less in advance, and 17% found out about their schedule only one day's notice or less
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  Cole: Irish Parties and People demand Expulsion of Israeli ambassador

  The recent Israeli assault on the Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and the bombardment of Gaza, has stirred passions in the Irish Republic
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  Monbiot: Britain’s borders: wide open to Covid, slammed shut for people in need

  The government has gone to extreme lengths to close our borders to refugees and people seeking work, yet has left them wide open to Covid-19
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  Cook: Ignore Starmer’s moral posturing. He’s the one we should blame for stoking antisemitism

  No one should be surprised that Britain’s rightwing prime minister, Boris Johnson, has had barely anything to say about Israel’s pummelling of Gaza
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  Monbiot: Nothing Works Any More

  When we get ripped off by con artists, in most cases we no longer have any recourse. It’s the result of disastrous political choices
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  Monbiot: Breaking Point

  The end of the United Kingdom is a prospect we should welcomegeo
• Ramsay: How Scottish independence stopped being scary

  In 2016, Scotland’s Conservatives successfully spread panic about an independence referendum. Five years on, the electorate is no longer afraid
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  Evans: The Drone Revolution Comes to England

  As cities and towns are faced with rising poverty, homelessness and drug addiction, the authorities respond with more social control