Chris Hedges, the noted anti-fascist campaigner in the USA, has recently pointed out that fascists are unusually candid. They tell you what they are going
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Farage vs Workers
Nigel Farage says cutting “red tape” boosts growth. Let’s be honest about what that means: weaker paid leave, weaker sick and maternity pay, weaker anti-discrimination
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Farage vs Democracy
Nigel Farage sells Reform as a people’s movement—but scratch the surface and you find a one-man company with no real internal democracy. In this video,
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Has the coup already happened?
The New York Times began an email I received overnight by saying: Today, I’m talking to my colleague Damien Cave, who wrote a great piece
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Rachel Reeves is wrong about debt interest
At the Labour Party conference this morning, Rachel Reeves said: “There is nothing progressive, nothing Labour, about government using one in every £10 of public
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Capitalism, my arse
As the Guardian reports this morning: The government has said it will underwrite a £1.5bn loan guarantee to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) as the carmaker battles the
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Labour: racist, immoral and likely to tear the country apart
Yesterday, Keir Starmer described Reform’s policy on the right to indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the UK as “racist”, “immoral” and likely to “tear
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Would ID cards make life easier?
Keir Starmer has reopened the debate on national identity cards. Supporters say they could make public services, voting, and security simpler. Critics warn of surveillance,
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Farage, the cave, and pushing the Overton window aside
This post arose out of a conversation between Jacqueline, my wife, and me yesterday, although the idea had been bouncing around for a few days
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