Britain now has a very strange relationship with protest. Some protests are treated as if they were an existential threat to the state. Others, which
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As The Guardian reports this morning: Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence
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This post was nearly complete yesterday when the MacBook on which I was writing it failed. I am told that when it is repaired, most
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As the Guardian noted yesterday: Reform UK has engaged in a war of words with the Church of England over the party’s plans to deport all
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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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I posted this on Twitter this morning: Starmer is enabling fascism through his cowardice and acceptance of Farage’s framing. He has power and will not
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A US-based writer called Chris Armitage has noted in his Substack that: Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once.
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The UK doesn’t just have one economy: it has three. They are the real economy, the sustainable economy, and the monetary economy. However, the government
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Introduction I rarely write blog posts as long as this one. I am rarely as passionate about a subject as I am about the provision
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