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Labouring
The local election results appear to suggest the media theme of Labour imploding under Jeremy Corbyn has been confirmed. However, as the old saying goes, appearances are deceptive. Not that the...
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Personality Culture
There are two Jeremy Corbyns. There is the strawman version, stuffed by the media and set up for pelting; then there’s the real one. Since being elected to the leadership of the Labour Party the...
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Flash View 2: Assassination by Insinuation
During Radio 4’s Today programme’s (Saturday, 20th May) newspaper review, an item was highlighted that the intelligence services had, at one point, opened a file on Jeremy Corbyn due to suspicions he...
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Manchester Triptych
! Floret of flame, echo of the big bang, Flinging innocent creation apart, Flaying thin skin from an orderly world, Punching and pummelling breaking bodies, Undoing flesh with nuts and bolts and...
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May Election in June
When the prime minister called this election the prospect of a Labour victory appeared fanciful. There were seemingly foolhardy protestations that the yawning gulf measured by opinion pollsters might...
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Flash View 3: Mind the Generation Gap
It was votes of the young, naively optimistic/self-interested (abolition of tuition fees), or the old, cynical/self-interested baby boomers, who betrayed the nation. Or at least, that seems to be the...
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Flash View 4: Accusing Syria
BBC Radio 4’s “Today” (Tuesday, 27th June) carried a statement by a US spokesman claiming the Syrian government was preparing a chemical attack on civilians. The spokesman went on to make other...
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Korea
Is the USA the defender of life and liberty in Korea? The straightforward answer is decisively, no! It is an imperialist presence, maintaining large aggressive force in the South and conducting...
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Non-Marxist Leninism
I must begin with a mea culpa. For around four decades I have been associated with Marxism Leninism, sometimes actively, often more passively. What I have demonstrated to myself is an individual’s...
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The Voice of the People?
The people have spoken. More accurately they rather quietly slipped into the isolation of polling booths and secretly made their marks on ballot papers. This amidst the clamour of hyperbolic voices...
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