Democracy requires much more than voting every few years. It requires people to have the time, security and mental capacity to understand political choices, consider
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I spent part of yesterday at a poetry workshop run by Alice Willetts as part of the Cambridge Poetry Festival. She was discussing writing for
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Trump did a deal yesterday with Russia to supposedly release 3 million tonnes of diesel from Russia’s reserves over the next few months. I do
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Much of the time, I suspect the mainstream media, including its supposedly more serious elements, fails to give us the whole truth on significant issues.
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Is neoliberalism beginning to collapse under the weight of its own failures? In this video, I argue that the unrest we are seeing in France,
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There is something quite extraordinary about the Conservative Party apparently deciding that cutting inheritance tax should be a centrepiece of its attempt to recover its
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The G7 statement on releasing diesel stocks, issued yesterday, was a pile of nonsense that eventually only indicated that all these nations still live in
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The Telegraph has this to say in an email this morning: Andy Burnham’s first three months in Downing Street have been, by and large, smooth
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