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There’s a hard-right tidal wave about to hit Europe – and it will only make the economic crisis worse

By the time of the European parliament elections in June, this year’s rightward ebb in European politics will have turned into a tidal wave....

29.04.2024 100

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Britain seems stuck in a doom loop of poverty. I have a plan to raise billions to address that

An election year is the time to confront the paralysing gloom and declinist thinking besetting our country and, by rediscovering our moral compass,...

27.03.2024 8

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Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown on the Multibank's expansion into Wales

Some 80,000 Welsh families, including 50,000 children, make up the 170,000 Welsh people who today are on the edge of destitution, according to new...

05.03.2024 6

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Tables without food, bedrooms without beds. Grinding child poverty in Britain calls for anger – and a plan

Even if the government issued newspaper editors with D-notices banning any public mention of the word “poverty”, it could hardly do more to create...

08.02.2024 100

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In 2008, we were inches from peace in the Middle East. I believe it’s still within our grasp

With all hope currently buried beneath the rubble of Gaza and Israel’s abandoned kibbutzim, it is hard not to despair about the prospects of an...

09.01.2024 10

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Moments of hope Nelson Mandela taught me this: hope survives wherever people come together

A story is told about a British ambassador and his fellow diplomats at the UN who were asked of their hopes for the festive season. “A box of the...

31.12.2023 60

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Here’s what Trump 2.0 will bring: ignorance and vengeance in the US, chaos for world order

This year has been dominated by the Russia-Ukraine war, recession, the China-US standoff, and the Hamas terrorist attack and Gaza war. Yet as...

07.12.2023 100

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The government has lost control of the cost of living crisis – here’s how businesses must step in

A few weeks ago, a father walked into a charity warehouse, dumped his distraught 16-year-old son and walked away for good, saying he could no longer...

16.11.2023 90

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Children on both sides are the silent victims of this war – why doesn’t international law protect them?

Children do not start wars or plan acts of terrorism, but too often they are their greatest victims, as the conflict engulfing Israel and Gaza so...

27.10.2023 90

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How do we raise trillions of dollars to fight the climate crisis? The answer is staring us in the face

A fter a summer of ever-more deadly floods, droughts and firestorms, two autumn summits – the G20 and the UN general assembly – have come and...

25.09.2023 200

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