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Odeon of Death Film of the Month: 28 Kids Later
The Odeon of Death takes a look at the month’s events through the medium of cinema.
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Sneers and Moaning in the Newsroom
Our secret tabloid insider working shifts at the Daily Mail shares his take on what life is really like working in Northcliffe House.
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Why I Refused to Go to Chatham House and Hear the Polish Katie Hopkins Speak
Rafal Pankowski laments how a great institution seems to be giving a voice to xenophobia.
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Scottish Independence is Driven by Internationalism Rather than Nationalism
James Melville explains why it might be time for the Scottish National Party to change its name.
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Emigrant Espionage: How the Kremlin Keeps the Russian Diaspora Abroad Vulnerable
Kseniya Kirillova explains the influences that make Russians overseas prey to pressure from Vladimir Putin, and how to counteract them.
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Will the Coronavirus Be the Death of Authoritarian Regimes?
While authoritarians try to build nationalist walls, infectious diseases don’t respect boundaries and need transnational solutions argues CJ Werleman.
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‘Dark Waters’: Bringing A Corporation To Account
Chris Sullivan reviews a new film exploring corporate destruction and greed and the tenacity of lawyers and litigants to achieve accountability and justice.
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Fowl Play: How US Chicken Imports will Pollute Britain’s Poor
Since joining the EU British food has gone from bog-awful to top-notch, but Otto English reveals how a US Trade deal will unravel 40 years of progress.
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‘Downstream of Culture’: How Identity Politics Swept Labour Away
While the right has turned politics into a culture war, the left has yet to tackle the politics of culture, says Hardeep Matharu.
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Spies Who Go Into the Cold: How Russian Media Recruits Western Intelligence Officials
As the former director of France’s MI6 joins a Russian propaganda channel Stephen Komarnyckyj reports on a new phase of Putin’s hybrid warfare.
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Meet the ‘Anti-Greta’: Climate Denial’s Latest Vessel
Mat Hope explains how the dark money-funded US alt-right is using a German teenager to advance more misinformation about the climate emergency.
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Brexit is Costing the UK More than All its Payments to the EU Put Together
James Melville on how the £200 billion cost of four years lost growth equals the entire UK contribution to the EU budget since it joined.
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Coronavirus: How the Global Economy Could Catch a Cold
If the Coronavirus takes hold in the UK, how would the economy be impacted and why is the Government not reassuring businesses?
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It’s Time for Europe to Take Action Over China’s Persecuted Muslim Uyghurs
CJ Werleman pens an open letter to the European Parliament, urging it to deliver through action its condemnation of China’s cleansing of its Muslim minority in states such as Xinjiang.
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To Align or Diverge? Why the Silence over this Brexit Question is Dangerous
Paul Niland considers why the UK Government appears not to want to publicly discuss the UK’s future relationship with EU – despite it being the biggest political change of our times.
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Online Harms – Ending Anonymity will Hurt More
John Lubbock argues that the UK Government can’t help trying to end anonymity and invade privacy. So how will OfCom regulate social media?
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Surrendering the Dictator: Is Sudan Coming in from the Cold?
Does Sudan’s pledge to hand over Omar Bashir to face genocide charges mark the beginning of a new era?
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With No Opposition, Johnson is Getting On with Pursuing his Economic Hardship
The new Labour Leader must take apart the Government’s claim to be ‘levelling up’ the UK while its Brexit policy, austerity and council cuts make reaching that goal impossible, argues Mike Buckley.
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Priti Patel is a Product of her Own PR
Otto English charts the rise of the controversial Home Secretary and explores the ambition which could be placing her eyes on the top job next
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From Sunderland to the Bullingdon Club: Englishness Unravelled
Unsatisfied with George Orwell’s description of patriotism, John Mitchinson digs deep into his own personal history to untangle the complex roots of his Englishness.
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The Government Must Stop Ruining Our Health
Stephen Colegrave looks at how the Government should take responsibility for the widening health inequalities identified in Sir Michael Marmot’s new report and what it should do about it.
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Underground Russian Influence: Johnson and the Ghost Station
Turlough Conway on how a new legal case against Boris Johnson raises more questions about money laundered in London and Conservative connections to Russia.
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The Beautician and the Beast: Danielle Hindley v the Mail on Sunday
Brian Cathcart on how the Sunday tabloid admitted that it published a false defamatory story about a member of the public, but still dragged her through court.
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Poverty in the UK is a Government-Created Crisis
If the success of a government is judged by how it treats the most vulnerable in society, our decade-long Conservative Government has utterly failed, argues James Melville.
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What Price Will the UK Pay for its Brexit Immigration Revolution?
Joe Lyons considers whether the Government’s new points-based immigration system will actually reduce immigration into the UK and what the cost of it will be to key sectors.
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Fear and (Self) Loathing in the Newsroom
A journalist working shifts at the Daily Mail shares his take on what life is really like working inside Northcliffe House.
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Sanders Versus Trump: Why Russian Intervention Will be Worse in 2020
With Donald Trump facing re-election in the US and the Labour leadership for up grabs in the UK, Stephen Komarnyckyj looks at how Vladimir Putin is trying to further disrupt politics in both countries.
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THE UPSIDE DOWN: Reasons to be Cheerful
John Mitchinson sets out why the Greek philosopher Epicurus’ legacy has been claimed by hedonism but actually represents the opposite and is so relevant for our anxious times.
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Namaste, Trump: Why the President’s Visit to India is About Optics
CJ Werleman on the meeting of India and America’s two right-wing ‘strong men’.
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‘Rape of Britain’: Russia Rolls Out the Red Carpet for ‘Tommy Robinson’
Sarah Hurst on how the far-right activist visited Russia to praise Vladimir Putin and spread Islamophobic and racist propaganda about the UK.
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British Firms Violating Palestinian Rights in the Occupied Territories
The UK Government has said it does not encourage or support those operating in settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories – despite a new UN report accusing British firms of being complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights.
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‘Greed’ is Good: A Fast, Funny and Infuriating Take on the Emptiness of Acquisition
Chris Sullivan reviews a new comedy drama based on one of Britain’s most controversial modern businessmen.
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France’s Struggle with Secularism and Islam Continues
By banning foreign imams from teaching in France, the normalisation of anti-Muslim sentiment continues in a country which prides itself on freedom, equality, and fraternity.
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Spending Promises Don’t Mean Austerity Is Over
Despite the Government’s various spending announcements, Iwan Doherty considers whether austerity is really over.
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History and the Cult of Victory: The Kremlin’s Revisionist “Soft Power”
As Putin rewrites the past in order to control the future, Kseniya Kirillova reveals what it tells us about Russia’s strategic goals.
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What Carrie Did Next: Chapter One
The first chapter of the secret memoirs of the first lady of the United Kingdom (FLOTUK). As told to Otto English…
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UN Hands Consumers a Clear Choice: Aid and Abet Israel’s Illegal Occupation or Don’t
CJ Werleman on a new report published by the UN which lists the companies profiting from Israel’s unlawful settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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The Jamaica Deportations Reveal the Racial Injustice of the UK’s Drug Laws
The Government’s recent deportations of “serious foreign national offenders” are the most recent and poignant example of the so-called ‘colour line’, argues Lola Brittain.
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Eugenics was Behind Some of the Policy Disasters of the 20th Century
Samir Jeraj considers the role British elites gave to eugenics as a deeply flawed method of providing the nation with a healthy stock of soldiers.
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‘Why Does Anyone Young Want to Elect Bernie Sanders for President?’
Bonnie Greer remembers her Baby Boomer past and wonders what happened to a healthy disrespect for your elders.
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The Great British Immigration Myth
With the Government’s announcement of a new points-based immigration system, James Melville considers how people’s fears of those entering the country have been fuelled by political decision-making.
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‘Real Boot on the Throat Stuff’: Why the BBC is Facing the Fight of its Life
Former BBC producer Patrick Howse speaks to those inside the Corporation about the threats facing it at the hands of Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings.
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Tibetans Face New Era of Danger as China’s Influence in Nepal Grows
Steve Shaw reports on a new agreement under which Tibetans crossing into Nepal to escape China’s oppression will be forced to return to the Communist country.
