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Author and journalist Daniel Trilling joins The Left Lane for a live online event on how Britain’s political class made the far right respectable – and what can still be done about it. Free to attend, Thursday 9 July at 7pm. Registration is essential to take part. Reserve your place now.

As Britain endures a record-breaking heatwave and scientists warn a “Super El Niño” could make next summer even deadlier, the death toll from extreme heat isn’t a natural disaster – it’s the predictable cost of an economy built on fossil fuels.

As the Ockenden report exposes the national maternity crisis, campaigners in Liverpool explain how 91,000 signatures and a decade of organising have kept their hospital open against the logic of austerity.

From child marriage decrees to bullets fired at protesters, the Taliban’s war on women grinds on unremarked, while Afghanistan’s men’s cricket team tours India and Canada. The ICC's silence is complicity.

Our latest international news digest includes items on the Colombian elections, European rearmament, EU immigration law, the Peruvian elections, reporting of the Israel-Palestine conflict and rifts in the Iranian diaspora in the UK.

Trump’s contradictions – threatening annihilation one day, offering Iran a free pass the next – reveal a deeper shift. The question now isn’t who's winning in Gaza or Lebanon, but whether Israel is still worth the cost to US imperialism, say Brian Green and Carol Taylor.