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The column attempts to paint trade unions as the true villain in the miners’ strike
Covid has not only been a health crisis, but has dramatically affected people’s social, economic and family life, as well as their mental health.
The proposals are disproportionate, oppressive, and deeply harmful to democracy and the public’s right to know, says James Slack.
The short term costs of reducing carbon emissions to net zero are high, but the alternative will cost us more.
‘76% of people ‘didn’t know’ what politicians meant when they talked about a ‘culture war’.
‘There is no charter of people’s rights and parliament is weak and unable to hold government to account.’
‘One rule for them, another for us’.
‘These are shameful comments from Boris Johnson, and reveal the Conservative party’s utter disregard for the communities still scarred by Thatcher’s closure of the mines’
Human rights group Liberty has described the deportation flights as ‘cruel’.
The IEA has rejected climate change targets as ‘arbitrary’.
