Jo Cox events show ‘appetite for something positive’, says sister
A year to the day after Jo Cox, the MP for Batley and Spen, was murdered, hundreds of children from nine local schools gathered on a sunny green in the West Yorkshire town of Heckmondwike to sing in her memory. “We will shout it from the rooftops and sing it...
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BA cabin crew call two-week strike in July over pay dispute
Cabin crew at British Airways are to strike for two weeks in July, in the longest walkout to date in an increasingly bitter dispute over pay. Up to 2,000 members of BA’s mixed fleet, which employs mainly younger, recent recruits on inferior terms and conditions to...
London fire: Theresa May meets victims after criticism
Theresa May visited victims of the Grenfell Tower blaze in a west London hospital on Friday, after being criticised for failing to meet residents of the block earlier. Mrs May spent almost an hour speaking to patients and staff at London’s Chelsea and Westminster...
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Philippines: Release and Protect “Secret Jail” Detainees
The Philippine government should immediately release the alleged drug suspects unlawfully detained in a Manila police station secret jail, and ensure their protection after release, Human Right Watch said today. The official Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and the...
Israeli Workers Rights Denied Gaza Access in a report released
The Israeli military authorities are blocking access to and from the Gaza Strip for human rights workers who document abuses and advocate to end them, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The travel restrictions call into question the Israeli military...
May and Sturgeon are battling for Scotland’s future. Who will blink first?
What’s a year or two between friends? Quite a lot, it seems – and even longer between sworn political enemies. Theresa May got her own back on the first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon by refusing her request for a second independence referendum before Brexit...
What the Trump Refugee Ban Means for an ISIS Survivor
On Saturday, I spent a damp, cold day at Khazir camp, about an hour outside of Erbil, which houses thousands of Iraqi civilians who have fled Islamic State control and recent fighting to retake Mosul. I was there to learn more about the detention of many of these...
The Demise of Anglo-American Economic Leadership
Since the time of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, countries around the world have followed America and Britain’s economic example – privatizing, de-regulating and opening up their economies to foreign trade and investment, sometimes known as the ‘Anglo-Saxon...
