Paul Mason
Gaza child deaths – the view from the shoreline
Today Israel has exonerated its military from any criminal charges relating to the action. It says they were playing in a “compound” clearly identified…
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Obama to US people: I’ve said this too many times
President Obama has had to speak to the US people after some of the worst gun massacres in modern American history. This is what he has had to say.
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Aung San Suu Kyi: a painful metamorphosis
For so long Burma’s chief dissident, now the leader of a political party, Aung San Suu Kyi strongly denies any complacency against persecution.
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FactCheck: should we scrap private schools?
Do you have to be posh to get to the top in modern Britain? Or is a private education a waste of money? FactCheck looks at the evidence…
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Magna Carta at 800: what is the ‘great charter’?
Commemorations are taking place to mark the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta – but how much do we know about the first building block of the British constitution?
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Snooper’s charter: landmark report released on surveillance
A “comprehensive and comprehensible” new law on security services’ powers to monitor online communications must be drawn up “from scratch”, an influential terrorism watchdog says.
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Paul Mason
Greece is not Ireland – and it’s not just about the economics
Why did Greece collapse and Ireland survive? First, because the Irish crisis was a banking crisis. And in Greece you can’t impose austerity and hope modernise at the same time.
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Jewish sect schools back down over driving ban
Children in a tiny Hasidic Jewish community will not be barred from the classroom because their mothers drive, as their schools back down.
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NI outlaws paying for sex: could the rest of the UK follow?
Paying for sex becomes illegal in Northern Ireland, but with calls for the law to be rolled out across the UK, a leading campaign group representing sex workers says lawmakers are missing the point.
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Nicky Morgan condemns Jewish sect’s women driving ban
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan says it is “completely unacceptable” for an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect in London to order a driving ban for women.
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Women in ‘marginal’ Jewish sect told not to drive
Women in a Jewish sect in north London have been told not to drive or face having their children barred from school. They are were told that driving would offend “traditional rules of modesty”.
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Queen’s speech: unions attack Javid strike action crackdown
Trade unions representing more than 4.1 million people attack Tory plans to make it more difficult for public sector workers to carry out legal strikes, Kevin Rawlinson and Sahra Ajiba report.
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Queen’s speech 2015: adopting ‘a one nation approach’
Delivered by the Queen in her speech at the state opening of parliament, the government outlines its political priorities, promising to “bring different parts of the country together.”
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Paul Mason
Long term debt deal could break Greek logjam
Running short of cash to pay public sector salaries, pensions and debt obligations, Greece’s Syriza has laid out what it will and will not negotiate with its creditors, but will it be enough?
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Keme Nzerem
‘This is anything but an election’ – Figo slams Fifa as he withdraws candidacy
With two more candidates out of the race to replace him, the opposition camp may be less fragmented, but Sepp Blatter’s reign as president of Fifa doesn’t look like coming to an end any time soon.
