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As the UK struggles with the reality that it is the only country in the world to create its own internal trade barrier, Mike Buckley looks at the dangerous pitfalls for Boris Johnson

Curtailing excess production and waste could help save the planet and create more equitable societies, says Thomas Perrett

In the wake of the Lambeth Council findings by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Katharine Quarmby considers why the systemic failings around locking vulnerable people up out of sight, out of mind are never acted upon

Richard Murphy looks at the Government’s poor decision making around Coronavirus costs, and how their poor accounting could be used as another excuse to cut public spending

Maheen Behrana argues that the off-world delusions of technocratic billionaires show how keen they are to dominate humankind or escape it

Otto English shares the story of his late mother’s ‘double life’ and explores how class continues to define British society in damaging, limiting ways

n the same week that Dawn Butler was expelled from the House of Commons, MP Dr Rosena Allin-Khan was 'tone-policed' by a white MP – and not for the first time. Sian Norris analyses a worrying trend

Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar analyse a historic victory for anti-racism but warn that the ‘War on Woke’ isn't over and that new alliances are needed