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*Guatemala prosecutor suspends party of anti-corruption election candidate.* This was because that party got enough votes to make it into the final run-off.

The US deportation thugs disregarded Biden's order to drop the bully's blanket deportation policy.

Republicans are attacking official bodies and researchers who try to reduce Republican disinformation.

*The Guardian view on public sector pay: higher taxes on the rich are needed to fix broke Britannia.*

Funds are needed for many other areas in which plutocratists have cut public investment and support for poor and disadvantaged people. That is clear to us — but not, apparently, to today's leaders of Labour.

A party that fails to advocate taxing the rich is on the side of harm. Maybe somewhat less so than the Tories, but still.