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Honestly held opinions and provocative argument based on current events or our recent reports.
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‘Living Through This Labour Government’s Benefits Cuts Is Brutal’
Cutting disability benefits will do nothing but heighten the scapegoating of disabled people once again. Penny Pepper asks how can a Labour Government introduce such a punitive measure?
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‘The Wider Issues the Riots Were a Symptom of Must Remain on the Political Agenda’
On 29 July 2024, news broke of a horrific attack at a dance workshop in Southport in which three young girls were murdered. In January, Axel Rudakubana was sentenced to a minimum of 52 years for the killings.
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‘Labour Offers No Clear Narrative’: In the Shark-Infested Waters of Politics, Reform Is Circling
Labour MP Clive Lewis – who recently introduced the unsuccessful Water Bill calling for the mutualisation of water companies that cause consistent environmental damage – explains why he believes his own party’s Government is falling far short of the transformation the UK’s public services require
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‘Two-Tier’ Justice Or Two-Tier Punditry?
By 7pm on 30 July 2024, small groups of white men had begun to congregate outside one of Southport’s mosques. Some were wearing hoodies and masks
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‘Legitimate Concerns’ and Root Causes: Have Lessons Been Learned From Last Summer’s Riots?
Last summer, a motley crew of influencers and populists sought to recast the thugs rampaging through towns and cities as a democratic revolt from below. Though they largely failed in this endeavour – a majority of the public displayed little sympathy towards the rioters – it would be naive to bet against further outbreaks of…
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Political Economy – Trump’s Tariffs: The World’s ‘Liz Truss Moment’
Simon Nixon’s PoliticalEconomy Trump’s Tariffs: The World’s ‘Liz Truss Moment’ It is extraordinary to think that it is less than a decade since the UK chose to gamble its prosperity on the stability of the global rules-based trading system and America’s willingness to continue to underpin it. Ahead of the EU Referendum, the Leave campaign…
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The Beginning of the End or ‘Trump 2028’? 100 Days of an Unprecedented Presidency
There may be a far more sinister motive for Donald Trump to go as far as to try to violate the constitutional ban on running for a third term, writes Washington-based Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘Trump’s War on Academic Institutions Is Even Worse Than You Think’
This is the greatest assault on academic freedoms in generations, argues Emma DeSouza
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How a ‘Populist’ Media Has Mainstreamed the Far Right
Right-wing daily papers in the UK do not represent ‘public opinion’ – they simply reflect the radical right views of those ‘who own and run them’, argues Julian Petley
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Power, Visas, and the Politics of Exclusion: How Borders Are Being Used to Silence Dissent
Borders are now being used not just to prevent the passage of people, but of ideas too, argues Iain Overton
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How the BBC’s Flawed Impartiality Scuppered a Podcast About a Heating System
Former BBC producer and reporter Patrick Howse explores the latest worrying sign of the BBC’s flawed interpretation of ‘impartiality’
