This image is from Twitter, yesterday: As The Guardian reported: Five people have been arrested at a protest in London where a group of masked
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How fascists use black-and-white thinking to win
Fascists and far-right politicians define an ‘other’ group in society and then blame them for all its problems. I explain why this tactic is so
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We will be better off without the Tories
This is a headline in the Financial Times this morning: The substance of the story does not matter in any large part. The fact is
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Badenoch is talking nonsense
The FT has published an interview with Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservative Party, this morning. It opened by noting: Kemi Badenoch has said
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More Labour MPs oppose disability cuts than there are Tory MPs
Discussion has been continuous in the Murphy family kitchen this morning. After discussing Labour’s strategy, we moved on to its plans for disability benefit cuts,
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Who is bringing up the rear?
I was fascinated by this election result: These were the first preference votes cast: Not who came last. It was the Tories, with 48 votes.
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The threat from extreme centrists
No one talks about extreme centrists. They should, because they’re the people who want to maintain the status quo when it’s glaringly obvious that we
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Will Labour reverse the harm of Brexit?
If you listened to 10 Downing Street, you would think that the agreement it is trying to reach with the EU today is epochal. It
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The UK has a ‘left behind’ and they are reshaping politics
Two charts from the FT this morning strongly indicate that the UK has a ‘left behind’ group in our society, and they are now reshaping
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