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Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank

Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West Bank

Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West BankScroll downCredit: Avishay Mohar, B'TselemHagar ShezafShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppThese images appear again and again – from the ground, from the air, and on maps: dozens of Palestinian communities wiped off the landscape, while illegal Israeli settler outposts continue to spread across the West Bank.Since October 7, 2023, this phenomenon has intensified significantly. Unlike the war in Gaza, there is no discussion in Israel about ending this parallel campaign of dispossession.

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The GuardianPoliticians
Trump administration subpoenas New York Times journalists over new Air Force One reporting

Trump administration subpoenas New York Times journalists over new Air Force One reporting

Outlet said journalists subpoenaed to testify before grand jury after story detailed security concerns with Qatar-gifted plane The Trump administration has issued subpoenas to several journalists after the newspaper reported on security concerns with the president’s new plane, according to .The Times said its journalists were subpoenaed on Friday by the US justice department to testify before a federal grand jury in Manhattan five days later, marking the latest effort by the to compel testimony from journalists under the threat of penalty. Agents delivered some of the subpoenas to the Times reporters at their homes, the paper added.

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The GuardianWar & Conflict
US and Iran trade escalating strikes as supreme leader is buried after days-long funeral

US and Iran trade escalating strikes as supreme leader is buried after days-long funeral

Renewed attacks the largest since an interim memorandum was signed this June, with Trump saying fragile truce is ‘over’The US and Iran traded retaliatory strikes on Thursday as US president Donald Trump threatened to escalate the conflict unless Iran stopped attacking ships in the strait of Hormuz.Iran responded to the latest round of attacks by targeting US-allied Kuwait and Qatar and accused the US of striking near its sole nuclear power plant.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
As Democrats pick up the pieces after Graham Platner, many wonder: how did this happen?

As Democrats pick up the pieces after Graham Platner, many wonder: how did this happen?

The former US Senate candidate’s spectacular fall has upended the Maine Senate race and left voters fuming at the partyAlmost exactly one year ago, Graham Platner, who has no political experience, was cherry-picked by out-of-state political activists.According to a person familiar with the campaign, Daniel Moraff and Leanne Fan, who have made a name for themselves by recruiting populist candidates across the country, traveled to Maine and rented a house near Platner’s home in Sullivan to convince him to run for the US Senate. Throughout the process, Moraff became Platner’s “right-hand man”, the person described, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of backlash.

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The GuardianElectionsUSA
Graham Platner officially withdraws candidacy for US Senate in Maine

Graham Platner officially withdraws candidacy for US Senate in Maine

Paperwork ends Democratic campaign laden with scandals, including most recently accusations of sexual assaultGraham Platner, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, officially withdrew his candidacy on Friday afternoon, ending a campaign laden with scandals.Maine’s secretary of state confirmed Platner had filed the paperwork to remove his name from the November ballot, two days after Platner publicly said he planned to exit the race.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
Why Graham Platner wasn’t the answer to the Democrats’ man problem – Stateside with Kai and Carter

Why Graham Platner wasn’t the answer to the Democrats’ man problem – Stateside with Kai and Carter

Earlier this week, Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine, was accused by a former partner of sexual assault. Platner denies the allegations, but on Wednesday, he suspended his campaign, accusing the “political establishment” of tanking his candidacy. But this is only the most recent scandal to have surfaced around Platner’s campaign — over the past year, the oyster farmer and combat veteran was revealed to have a tattoo that closely resembled a Totenkopf (a widely recognized Nazi symbol), a long paper trail of racist, misogynist and homophobic posts on Reddit, and in June, the New York Times published allegations from three former partners about Platner’s “toxic” behavior in their relationships, including, in several cases, physical intimidation (allegations Platner denied).As Democrats regroup and evaluate their dwindling chances to flip the Senate in November, hosts and are joined by Guardian political reporters and to ask why voters flocked to Platner, why they were reluctant to abandon him as the scandals came out — and what the whole mess says about who gets the privilege of political redemption.

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The GuardianElectionsUSA
Why was the pundit class so quick to defend Graham Platner? | Moira Donegan

Why was the pundit class so quick to defend Graham Platner? | Moira Donegan

To some of Platner’s most influential backers his swaggering, reckless and casually brutish masculinity was understood not as a liability, but as a virtueGraham Platner was accused of rape on Monday, and it quickly became clear that he will never be a United States senator. After days of delay, he finally in a long and grievance-filled video on Wednesday night. The prospect of his victory was doubtful even before Monday, when a woman he once dated, Jenny Racicot, went on the record to alleging that in 2021, a very drunk Platner let himself into her house, when she had told him not to come over. Racicot says she realized he was there when she heard strange noises; then, , forcing intercourse without a condom while she repeatedly told him no. that it reviewed emails between Racicot and her therapist about the alleged encounter. The outlet also interviewed a boyfriend Racicot later confided in about the alleged incident, and reviewed messages she shared with another woman warning her away from Platner, long before the start of his political career. Platner denies wrongdoing, saying: “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.” But he put out a video saying that he would “reflect on the best path forward” for his campaign. Since Platner may have known about the inevitability of this accusation becoming public, one wonders if the best time for such reflection might have been several months ago, when Maine voters still had the chance to select a more worthy and more viable candidate.

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The GuardianElectionsUSA
Caitlin Clark never asked to become a political symbol. Trump’s allies have chosen her anyway

Caitlin Clark never asked to become a political symbol. Trump’s allies have chosen her anyway

A congressional threat to bring the DoJ into the WNBA pushes Caitlin Clark into a role she has long tried to avoid: the central figure in America’s latest sports culture warAs part of its ongoing belief that the rights of white people are in peril and require government protection, the White House earlier this week released a 162-page report accusing the National Museum of American History of engaging in “anti-White activism”, declaring that exhibits at the various Smithsonian museums were prepared by “people who don’t want you to love your country”. Two days later, a group of nearly a dozen Republican lawmakers led by Texas representative August Pfluger the Department of Justice after the WNBA unless it makes itself “accountable” for presumably not protecting embattled Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark against the physicality of game’s Black players. Pfluger implied hard fouls against Clark “may be racially motivated”, and threatened a civil rights lawsuit against the WNBA on Clark’s behalf could be an option.The Pfluger letter represents the third time in less than a month the Trump administration and its loyalists have interfered in sports, twice using it as a front in its ongoing culture war, putting the Justice Department on high alert against anything it considers to be anti-white, anti-straight, anti-Christian. Enlisting Clark is pitting her against her own teammates and the culture of her league, but maybe the government believes she’s already there.

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The GuardianHumanityUSA
Republicans ask WNBA to protect Caitlin Clark from possible ‘racially motivated’ attacks

Republicans ask WNBA to protect Caitlin Clark from possible ‘racially motivated’ attacks

Clark has been on the end of hard fouls during careerBlack players routinely receive racist abuse in WNBAEleven Republican politicians have written to the WNBA asking the league to protect Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark from “multiple attacks” on court.Clark has been on the receiving end of hard fouls since she entered the league in 2024 after a stellar college career with Iowa. Recently, the forward Alyssa Thomas hit Clark in the throat during a game. Thomas was not called for a foul at the time but the WNBA later suspended her for one game. Thomas and her family received after the incident.

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The GuardianScandalUSA
The World Cup has upended the old world order – and despite Trump and Infantino, it still inspires | Simon Tisdall

The World Cup has upended the old world order – and despite Trump and Infantino, it still inspires | Simon Tisdall

Even White House interference and Fifa’s greed cannot spoil the celebrations. At last, an arena in which multiculturalism triumphs and underdogs scoreOf all the outrageous things Donald Trump has done, from bombing other countries to appeasing dictators, in last week’s USA v Belgium World Cup match sparked by far the most united and furious reaction across the world. Condemnation was all but universal. Trump’s cheating heart cannot understand the unmatched, ubiquitous power that the “beautiful game” exercises over ordinary lives everywhere. It massively surpasses his own. The world truly loves football. It doesn’t love him. And then USA lost the match anyway. Karma. This modern morality play joyously illuminated the limits of authoritarianism.In an age dominated by overbearing, illiberal economic and military powers, the men’s World Cup is upending the conventional geopolitical pecking order and power balances in refreshing and instructive ways. In this alternative universe, smaller nations – and ordinary people – can and often do get a bigger shout. Despite huge state investment in all aspects of the game, . Russia, never much good at football in the first place, after invading Ukraine. And despite all Trump’s Maga hooliganism, the US remains soccer small fry. So much for superpowers.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator

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The GuardianScandalAustralia
‘People could have lost their lives’: Telstra’s apologies fail to quell outage anger

‘People could have lost their lives’: Telstra’s apologies fail to quell outage anger

Fallout over the telco’s latest national outage continues, with executives called to front a snap meeting of a triple-zero parliamentary inquiryGet our , or It was a missed message on Microsoft Teams and a voicemail from Telstra’s head of operations that brought the chief executive’s European summer holiday with family to a grinding halt.Vicki Brady returned to Australia on Friday to face a media firestorm over Telstra’s national mobile outage, and on Saturday, it was announced the company would soon face a grilling in the Senate.

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The GuardianWar & ConflictAustralia
Telstra CEO ‘deeply sorry’ for outage and admits risk of time-keeping failure was known

Telstra CEO ‘deeply sorry’ for outage and admits risk of time-keeping failure was known

Vicki Brady grilled at first public appearance since returning from overseas as SA police say call to triple zero failed before deathGet our , or Telstra has admitted it knew of the dangers of a failure of its time systems and is now investigating why backup measures failed to stop this weeks outage, as its chief executive says she’s “deeply sorry” about its impacts.It came as South Australian police said an investigation was under way into whether a death during the outage can be linked to problems in calling triple zero, despite Telstra claiming it has no record of any failed call from family members.

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The GuardianElectionsAustralia
Anika Wells ridicules Angus Taylor and Barnaby Joyce for linking Telstra outage with China

Anika Wells ridicules Angus Taylor and Barnaby Joyce for linking Telstra outage with China

Kristy McBain criticises shadow communications minister Sarah Henderson for ‘testing’ Triple-zero system during major network blackoutGet our , or The communications minister, Anika Wells, has accused Barnaby Joyce and Angus Taylor of “going off half-cocked” by raising without evidence the prospect of China having been behind the affecting millions of Australians nationwide.The federal emergency management minister, Kristy McBain, also criticised the shadow communications minister, Sarah Henderson, after the Liberal senator said she had “tested” the triple-zero system by making unnecessary calls to the emergency line – which carries a criminal penalty.

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The GuardianGlobal AffairsUkraine
Monaco bomb mystery deepens as Ukraine’s security services are linked to murder of prime suspect

Monaco bomb mystery deepens as Ukraine’s security services are linked to murder of prime suspect

Military intelligence officer admits witnessing killing of woman believed to have left explosive device outside oligarch’s homeThe case of a suspected bomber accused of targeting a Ukrainian oligarch has taken another murky turn, after with evidence suggesting the involvement of Kyiv’s intelligence agencies.French police last week named Anastasia Berezovska as the person captured on CCTV leaving a rucksack outside a Monaco apartment block. It blew up, as he emerged from the building with his partner and their 13-year-old child.

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The GuardianInformationLondon
‘End of an era’: what is the future of British TV after Sky’s ITV takeover?

‘End of an era’: what is the future of British TV after Sky’s ITV takeover?

Merger stokes fears over job cuts, US influence and possible BBC and Channel 4 tie-up to take on Netflix and YouTubeOnly five years ago a bullish ITV was riding high, trumpeting the , as the broadcaster in the battle against the US streamers.Now its chief executive, Carolyn McCall, has raised the white flag, arguing that a is the only route to survival as deep-pocketed companies such as Netflix and YouTube hoover up audiences and commercial revenues.

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The GuardianHumanityVenezuela
Venezuela quake death toll passes 4,000 as scale of recovery effort looms large

Venezuela quake death toll passes 4,000 as scale of recovery effort looms large

Nearly 17,000 injured and thousands more are listed as missing amid calls by UN and president Delcy Rodríguez for financial helpThe death toll in Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes has topped 4,000, the government said on Friday.At least 4,118 people were killed and 16,740 injured in the back-to-back quakes on 24 June that flattened entire districts in the coastal state of La Guaira, Venezuelan parliament chief Jorge Rodriguez wrote on Telegram. Thousands more are listed as missing.

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The GuardianHumanityUSA
Six-hour polygraphs, forced reassignments: inside homeland security’s campaign of fear

Six-hour polygraphs, forced reassignments: inside homeland security’s campaign of fear

The ruthless gutting and reforming of the Department of Homeland Security has traumatized both workers and the most vulnerable immigrantsFederal officials tasked with implementing the ’s “mass deportation” program faced an extraordinary campaign of intimidation inside the Department of Homeland Security during the final months of ’s tenure and the arrival of her successor, a Guardian investigation found.Over the past four months, the Guardian spoke with more than three dozen current and former Department of Homeland Security officials who described a climate of fear driven by Trump loyalists in senior positions, who sidelined or removed career officials who raised concerns about possibly illegal acts, and threatened termination or arrest in order to stop dissent. Several have also claimed they were subjected to polygraph examinations conducted by US military personnel.

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The GuardianHealthcareUSA
Mitch McConnell mystery deepens as health questions remain unanswered

Mitch McConnell mystery deepens as health questions remain unanswered

Senator’s office has released only sparse details about hospital stay, leaving fevered speculation to fill vacuumMystery surrounding Senator health is deepening as the US Congress prepares to return from recess next week.McConnell, 84, has not been seen in public since he was admitted to hospital in the Washington area on 14 June. Nearly a month later, the Kentucky Republican’s office has released only sparse updates, saying he is “continuing to improve” and remains engaged with Senate business, while refusing to disclose the nature of his illness or explain why he remains hospitalised.

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BBCHealth AlertsUSA
Questions swirl about top US Republican McConnell's weeks-long hospital stay - here's what we know

Questions swirl about top US Republican McConnell's weeks-long hospital stay - here's what we know

Videos recently shared with news outlets and on social media appear to show US Senator Mitch McConnell being carried on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance last month, offering a small clue on the health of the top Republican lawmaker, who has not been seen in weeks. Concerns and calls for more information about McConnell, 84, are growing as his stay in hospital approaches the one-month mark.

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The GuardianElectionsUSA
Trump accused of trying to ‘rig’ elections after firing federal commissioners

Trump accused of trying to ‘rig’ elections after firing federal commissioners

President’s dismemberment of Election Assistance Commission called a ‘brazen attempt’ to control elections has been accused of trying to “rig” the upcoming after he fired the last three members of an independent federal commission.Trump’s extraordinary move to paralyze the US Election Assistance Commission (EAC) wipes out the only federal agency devoted solely to election administration months before the US midterm elections.

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The GuardianElectionsUSA
Trump fires last members of election commission, inciting fears of midterm ‘chaos’

Trump fires last members of election commission, inciting fears of midterm ‘chaos’

Bipartisan Election Assistance Commission maintains mail-voter registration form, among other duties has terminated the remaining members of the independent, federal commission that assists election administration officials nationwide just a few months before the midterm elections, multiple outlets reported Thursday.The remaining three commissioners of the four-member bipartisan commission ⁠were forced out on Thursday in different ways. The one Republican appointee resigned and the other ⁠two, Democratic appointees were notified of their terminations via email from ​the White House presidential personnel office.

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The TelegraphElectionsUSA
How a Democrat ‘hero’ ruined the party’s big comeback

How a Democrat ‘hero’ ruined the party’s big comeback

Like a kamikaze pilot moments before impact, Graham Platner was apparently determined to inflict as much damage as possible on the Democrats as his campaign went down in flames. Announcing the end of his race for Maine’s Senate seat on Wednesday, he declared he was the victim of a stitch-up by establishment party leaders who wanted to crush his insurgent movement and were rooting for the Republicans instead.

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The GuardianCrime & SafetyUSA
Judge to decide if Charlie Kirk case will go to murder trial after five-day hearing

Judge to decide if Charlie Kirk case will go to murder trial after five-day hearing

Tyler Robinson is accused of shooting the far-right activist at Utah Valley University last yearA judge is set to determine whether the case against Tyler James Robinson, the man charged with murdering Charlie Kirk, will advance to trial, as a five-day preliminary hearing comes to a close on Friday.US district judge Tony Graf is expected to sift through the evidence presented by the state and Robinson’s defense team in the coming weeks before issuing a ruling.

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The GuardianCrime & SafetyUSA
Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing said ‘he wishes he hadn’t done it’, roommate testifies

Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing said ‘he wishes he hadn’t done it’, roommate testifies

On fourth day of preliminary hearing, state presents video of a prosecutor interviewing Lance TwiggsTyler Robinson, the 23-year-old charged with murdering far-right pundit Charlie Kirk, cried and told his then-roommate Lance Twiggs “he wishes he hadn’t done it” one day after the fatal shooting, according to testimony played Thursday in court.On the fourth day of a hearing to determine whether the case has probable cause to proceed to trial, the state presented the video of a prosecutor interviewing Twiggs, after over whether broadcasting the remarks to the public could expose potential jurors to prejudicial information.

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The GuardianScienceUSA
Is the US trying to make scientists’ work so difficult that they simply give up? | Daniel Malinsky

Is the US trying to make scientists’ work so difficult that they simply give up? | Daniel Malinsky

New Trump administration rules would undermine longstanding research practices. It’s death by a thousand cutsA politician who aims to gradually privatize and ultimately destroy an institution funded by tax dollars – say, a public school system or public transportation network – may choose to do so by strategically disinvesting resources from that institution until it becomes barely functional, leading users to look elsewhere to meet their needs. Eventually, the user-base of the public system gets so low or frustrated that it seems reasonable to scrap the thing entirely, or re-direct public funds to private companies as contractors to provide the needed “service”. We’ve seen this strategy play out many times in states and city councils across America.It appears that the endgame of the Trump administration’s attacks on science and the research funding ecosystem is similar: grant freezes and administrative disarray at federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), new layers of project review by political appointees hunting for forbidden keywords such as “disparity” and “marginalized”, and proposed new restrictions to make international collaboration difficult or impossible all point towards a world where it’s just too onerous to do federally-funded scientific research. Is the goal to make scientists simply give up on the endeavor?Daniel Malinsky is an assistant professor of biostatistics in the Mailman School of Public at Columbia University

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The GuardianDiplomacyLondon
Europe considering proposals to allow navigation fees in strait of Hormuz

Europe considering proposals to allow navigation fees in strait of Hormuz

Plans specify tolls must not be compulsory as US officials urge Iran to publicly guarantee shipping safe passageEurope is studying proposals that may allow the charging of navigation fees in the strait of Hormuz as long as the tolls are not compulsory and have the support of the UN agency that regulates maritime transport.Britain’s deputy prime minister, David Lammy, said the imposition of compulsory tolls would be disastrous. But some of his cabinet colleagues said they recognised that systems of payments for specific navigation services were permissible in many natural waterways, including the strait of Malacca and the Channel.

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The GuardianMusic
Lizzo answers her critics: ‘I’m a fat, black, happy girl – they were always going to try to tear me down’

Lizzo answers her critics: ‘I’m a fat, black, happy girl – they were always going to try to tear me down’

Three years ago, the pop star was riding high after a sellout tour. But then a slew of shocking accusations from her former dancers changed everything. Where does she go from here?On 30 July 2023, Lizzo finished a 10-month world tour. She had played 80 shows across North America, Europe, Oceania and Asia, selling more than 853,000 tickets and grossing $86.3m. The rapper turned pop star was on top of the world. Then everything came crashing down.Two days later, three of her former dancers alleged that they had been subject to sexual harassment, a hostile work environment, religious and racial discrimination and fat-shaming on the tour. Two had been sacked, and one resigned. After the accusations, there was a huge pile-on from mainstream media and social media. And it seems to have gone on ever since. Lizzo, whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, disappeared. We were told that she was busy recording the follow-up to her huge hit album Special. But there were also rumours that she’d had a terrible breakdown.

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BBCElectionsCanada
At Canada's biggest rodeo, the starting gun is fired in the fight over Alberta separation

At Canada's biggest rodeo, the starting gun is fired in the fight over Alberta separation

Over a million people descend on the Calgary Stampede every year to marvel at the iconic chuckwagon race, a sport invented in the Albertan city where carriage drivers race teams of horses around the track to the sound of pounding hooves, or be amazed by the speed of bareback riders racing in First Nations horse relays. The 'Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth' is the marquee event on Alberta's summer calendar, a distinctly western Canadian spectacle where political leaders also have to test their mettle, judged on the quality of their pancake flips at community Stampede breakfasts and their ability to pull off a cowboy hat.

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The GuardianHumanityUnited Kingdom
The Guardian view on disability benefits: Pip must not become another route for cuts | Editorial

The Guardian view on disability benefits: Pip must not become another route for cuts | Editorial

Stronger European welfare states expose a Tory myth. Benefits can enable independence, work and growthSir Stephen Timms, Labour’s minister for social security and disability, is widely acknowledged to be a on welfare. He has seen the system from almost every angle: as a pensions and Treasury minister under New Labour, a shadow welfare spokesperson, a select committee chair, and now as a government minister. After Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves’s ham-fisted attempt to sparked a , the pair retreated behind Sir Stephen.His interim into personal independence payment (Pip), the main non-means-tested disability benefit for working-age adults, is an attempt to clean up the mess. The deeper problem was Labour’s fiscal rule: that the current budget should be on course to be in That rule disadvantages spending on the “current” side of the ledger, including welfare, because it is treated as expenditure to be “paid for”.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our section, please .

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