Death is touching everyone in Britain with fatalities from COVID-19 running at nearly a thousand a day, writes Derek Wall. So why is Prime Minister Boris Johnson still popular?
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World-renowned journalist and filmmaker John Pilger speaks to author听TJ Coles about the coronavirus crisis in the context of propaganda, imperialism, and human rights.
Major threats to public health, living standards and political freedoms underpin Prime Minister Boris Johnson's听response to COVID-19, write Neil Faulkner and Phil Hearse.
Environmental campaigners are calling for urgent action to cut pollution in the Arctic from the global shipping industry, writes Kerry Smith.
The truth is that Australia could have rescued Julian Assange and can still rescue him, writes John Pilger.
When conversing with commoners, members of the British Royal Family are instructed to always ask the question "And what do you do?"听For, after all, this gives the working class something to talk about 鈥 their job.
But Phil Shannon says it is high time the question was returned in kind by asking of the royals: "And what do you do?"
British politics continues to be chaotic and uncertain. This might appear a surprising judgement, considering that: Boris Johnson鈥檚 government has a majority of 80 seats, the first time since the 1980s that the Conservatives have been able to rule without serious parliamentary challenge; and Britain left the European Union on January 31, apparently ending a saga that split first the Conservative Party and then the entire country.
Yet, beneath the surface, politics remains in flux, argues Derek Wall.
While thousands of people rallied in cities across Australia on Invasion Day, activists in London, Berlin and Athens held protests in solidarity.
The British General Election, held on December 12, resulted in a huge victory for the right and a sweeping defeat for the left. Boris Johnson, a close ally of United States President Donald Trump, with 43% of the vote for the Conservative Party.
Britain goes to the polls on December 12, in what could be the most important general election in a generation. Boris Johnson鈥檚 increasingly right-wing and chaotic Conservative Party is generally seen as the likely victor, but Labour鈥檚 left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn could once again surprise, writes Derek Wall.
The British Labour Party has promised to 鈥渒ick-start a housing revolution鈥 as it unveiled its election manifesto, including commitments that would bring about Britain鈥檚 biggest public housing construction program for decades.
Based upon Marcia and Thomas Mitchell's 2008 book The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War, director听Gavin Hood听听shows how Gunn leaked an email exposing the fact that the US government was eavesdropping on other countries in order to win United Nations approval in the lead up to its March 2003 invasion of Iraq. Reviewed by Alex Salmon.
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