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From Donald in Wonderland comes the Trump of Hearts
So, with Donald Trump just eight days away from his inauguration, what are your impressions about the American president-elect and his likely effect on us? For me, it’s the emerging
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Donald Trump: so how’s that draining-the-swamp thing going?
Listen to much of the so-called ‘alt-media’, and one could be forgiven for thinking that four-times bankrupt-come-billionaire, US President-elect Donald Trump, really is going to give the establishment what for.
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The politics of rage: Trump, emotion and some lessons for the Left
Humans are emotional first and rational second. I’ve long believed this and the events of the last 12 months have merely confirmed this in my mind. This is not to
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Question Time, cosy assumptions and misplaced fears
A few years ago, I simply stopped watching Question Time, the BBC’s premier televised forum for ‘topical debate’. For a journalist with an interest in current affairs, it was important,
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Hilary Benn’s speech was a victory of style over substance
Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn made what was, by widespread consent, an extremely powerful speech in support of bombing ISIS targets in Syria to conclude the marathon Commons debate
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Thanet’s mercy missionaries find Calais refugees clinging to shreds of hope
“I don’t want to stay here because they’re horrible people. They’re horrible to us. They try to make our lives difficult – as if it’s not difficult enough. You English,
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We are ruled by corrupt bankers and corporations. Only a debtors’ rebellion can rein them in
Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave for the last eight years, you’d surely find it impossible to avoid the conclusion that our political and economic rulers are taking us
Psychopath Economics: Should we attack the system to save ourselves?
We live in a world of major threats. Growing inequality and austerity; government for bankers, by bankers; the march towards catastrophic climate change and resource depletion. And then there’s the backdrop of
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Marching won’t beat austerity, but a debt rebellion might
So Saturday’s anti-austerity marches in London and Glasgow were just the latest of a continuing campaign. Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn and comedian-come-revolutionary Russell Brand addressed the assembled hordes in
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