Image by Miguel Á. Padriñán from Pixabay Coronavirus is a biological virus coupled with a social disease: the spread of it has brought out the worst in humans, it has re-popularised Nazi theories of ‘the survival of the fittest’ and made us a gazillion times more selfish than before. Imagine that you’re in a high risk category. Now, […]
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Image by Ekaterina Vysotina from Pixabay Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank and elsewhere have overwhelmingly rejected President Donald Trump’s deal. The U.S. plan has also been dismissed by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. In the UK, many Members of Parliament have urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to reject this deal. Palestine’s ambassador to the UK, Mr […]
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Image: Keir Starmer QC. Picture credits: Chatham House | Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) The Labour party leadership starting gun was fired before election night was even over. At his own count in Islington, the Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, announced that he would not lead his party into another election. Jeremy Corbyn […]
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Picture Credits: Image by A. H. from Pixabay Iain Duncan Smith, the father of the ‘heartless’ Universal Credit system, is to receive a knighthood as part of the New Year’s Honours list, it has been reported. The former Tory leader and long-serving MP is most notably known for his austere welfare policies. Human rights advocates, opposition politicians and […]
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Switch on the TV, browse social media platforms, flick through newspaper pages, and observe recent polling and one will come across one broad consensus: the only way to defeat Boris Johnson and bury Brexit is through tactical voting. The urgency to vote tactically is not confined to just one camp but is, in fact, a […]
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This is the final day of the #UCUStrikesBack action and I haven’t tweeted about it all, though I’ve picketed a bit and thought about it a lot. Terrible things have been happening in the world beyond the strike too, which has made me think and rethink this funny career. I recognise that my job is […]
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Boris Johnson will not participate in a Channel 4 News TV debate with Jeremy Corbyn. The general election TV debate was scheduled to take place this Sunday and was due to be moderated by Channel 4 News‘ Krishnan Guru-Murthy. This was revealed by Louisa Compton, the commissioning editor for Channel 4 Dispatches, who tweeted her […]
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After eight General Elections and 22 years as the MP for Carshalton & Wallington (and now a candidate again), there could almost be a danger of things becoming a bit of a routine. The context of this campaign though renders that an impossibility. I don’t think I have ever fought a more important election. I […]
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Ever since I was a schoolboy and first became aware of politics, I always felt I could sleep soundly in the knowledge that the prime ministers I counted in and counted out – irrespective of whether the rosettes they wore were red or blue – did not wish to actively damage our country or indeed […]
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Xenophobia. Racism. Stereotypes. Prejudice. Bigotry. These are the words that come to my mind when I think about Brexit; these are the terms that resonate when one has a nightmare about the people who ferociously campaigned for Brexit. This is not some sort of liberal, baseless, elitist, snow-flake generated rhetoric. Rather, the racism, the outdated […]
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