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Dienstag, der 3. Mai 2022
FIERCE FIGHTING continues across eastern Ukraine as Russian and Donbas forces push to drive the Ukrainian fascists out of the Don basin. But the Azov brigade is still holed up in the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, holding hundreds of civilians hostage and refusing to lay down their arms even though their position is hopeless.
IT IS DIFFICULT to evince any enthusiasm for local elections. Although councils run key local services and administer huge budgets on behalf of central government, the independent power they once had has long gone. Few beyond the parish-pump activists of the main political parties and local cranks take any interest in local politics. On the street hardly anyone knows who their local councillors are or, indeed, who’s standing in these elections. This is why few can be bothered to vote on the day. But this time round is different, and the results could end the political careers of Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer.
TO REINFORCE the point about care workers leaving for supermarkets, on Monday GMB announced that it had secured a deal with supermarket chain Asda that their workers will now get £10.10 basic rate, an increase from £9.66.
VAL MCDERMID’S latest bestseller takes us back to the year of the Winter of Discontent, the first Scottish devolution referendum and what some might consider to be this country’s last Labour Government.
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