The far-right has doubled its support in Germany. But they’re no more popular than the left, and 80% did not vote for fascists. What are
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I think Jane Fonda hit a nail on the head last night when accepting a Lifetime Achievement award from the US Screen Actors Guild last
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I wrote a piece that might have upset some supposed modern monetary theory (MMT) supporters yesterday, making clear by doing so that I thought they
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Nesrine Malik puts forward an interesting idea in the Guardian this morning when suggesting that the whole basis of Trump’s policy agenda is to ask
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Unless politicians mean what they say we get a world where nothing can be relied on and chaos rules. Trump’s disdain for the truth is
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I spent the day in London today instead of visiting a bird reserve. The Royal Academy was our initial destination, to meet our elder son.
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One in five people in Germany who voted in today’s election voted for an openly fascist party that has sought to deny the significance of
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I am sorry to go on about defence again, but this blog is, if it is anything, a long-term train of thought, and right now,
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Trump is trying to break government, the USA, world peace and much more. We could despair, or we could, as happened in WW2, plan for
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