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Nothing Has Changed: What Brexit Means is Still Up For Grabs

Paul Niland, 18 December 2019

Paul Niland takes inspiration from the Ukrainian EuroMaidan revolution and argues that fundamental forces will stop Britain from moving too far away from the EU.

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Argument 2016 EU Referendum Activism Boris Johnson Brexit Conservative Party Europe Foreign Affairs General Election 2019 UK Politics

Labour Must Stop Being Part of the Problem and Start Being the Solution – Here’s why I’ve Joined It

Gareth Roberts, 18 December 2019

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Argument Austerity Boris Johnson Brexit Class Conservative Party General Election 2019 Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party Liberal Democrats Society and Welfare UK Politics

Progressive Scots Don’t Want to LEAVE BRITAIN Britain has Left Them

James Melville, 17 December 2019

James Melville explains why the Brexit vote and now a Johnson victory has propelled him away from the Union to Scottish Independence.

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Argument General Election 2019 Scottish Independence UK Politics

One Nation Conservatism is Dead: Johnson is Held Hostage by Hard Right Forces

Paddy Briggs, 17 December 2019

Paddy Briggs argues than any hope that Boris Johnson will show a more liberal side underestimates the scale of the coup inside the Conservative Party.

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Argument Boris Johnson Conservative Party General Election 2019 UK Politics

Why are Left-Wing Parties of the West Failing to Win Power?

CJ Werleman, 17 December 2019

How the defeat of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party in the 2019 General Election fits within a wider global shift to the right.

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Argument Australia Class Foreign Affairs General Election 2019 Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party Society and Welfare UK Politics United States of America

The Man in the High Castle: How to Evict the Conservatives from their Nationalist Redoubt

Musa Okwonga, 16 December 2019

While Boris Johnson broke all the rules in the 2019 General Election, his opponents must create new networks to bring him to book.

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Argument Boris Johnson Brexit Conservative Party General Election 2019 Labour Party Liberal Democrats UK Politics

Could Labour Lead a Progressive Party Conference to Work Out how to Defeat the Dark Johnson-Farage Double Act?

David Hencke, 16 December 2019

With the Tories already planning for a general election in five years, David Hencke looks at their vulnerabilities and the prospects of a progressive counter-attack.

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Argument Boris Johnson Conservative Party Economics, Finance and Money General Election 2019 Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party Liberal Democrats Society and Welfare UK Politics

The Brexit Betrayal Election and where Labour Goes From Here

Sufyan Ismail, 16 December 2019

Brexiters loaned Boris Johnson their votes in the 2019 General Election, which was dominated by the issue of Britain leaving the EU – can Labour win back their natural supporters next time around?

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Argument 2016 EU Referendum Boris Johnson Brexit Conservative Party Democracy General Election 2019 Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party Liberal Democrats Society and Welfare UK Politics

Labour Must Listen First and Decide Second if it Wants to Win Next Time

Mike Buckley, 13 December 2019

The party badly needs a period of reflection to learn the lessons, not just of this week, but of the decade, if it is to have a hope of winning the next general election.

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Argument Brexit Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party Society and Welfare UK Politics

GENERAL ELECTION 2019: Byline Times’ Four Pillars of ‘Don’t Panic’

Byline Times Team, 13 December 2019

Boris Johnson's sweeping victory is a disaster for the country, but he cannot deliver on his false promises. Here's how to survive and resist because his nemesis will come.

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Argument Activism Boris Johnson General Election 2019 Journalism Society and Welfare UK Politics

7 Reasons to Vote Tactically Not Tribally

Hugh Grant, 12 December 2019

Actor Hugh Grant sets out why today's General Election may be the last chance to save Britain from the lies engulfing it.

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Argument Boris Johnson Brexit General Election 2019 UK Politics

Make Britain Great Again: How Johnson Wants to Turn Britain into a South American State

Stephen Colegrave, 12 December 2019

Stephen Colegrave looks at how Boris Johnson's determination to make Brexit a success is in danger of increasing inequality and social problems in Britain on a scale not seen before.

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Argument America Boris Johnson Brexit General Election 2019 Health and medicine South America UK Politics

A Full Moon Election

Salena Godden, 11 December 2019

Poet Salena Godden with a personal reflection ahead of tomorrow's General Election.

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Argument Culture Arts General Election 2019 Poetry UK Politics

This General Election is about our Identity as a Nation – Do Voters Know what’s at Stake?

Mike Buckley, 11 December 2019

One of the tragedies of the 2019 General Election campaign is that the fundamental decision about the type of country we will become has not been made clear to voters

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Argument Boris Johnson Brexit Conservative Party General Election 2019 Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party Society and Welfare UK Politics

Friday 13th: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

Paul Niland, 9 December 2019

Paul Niland explores the lurking horror of a Johnson majority government for British jobs, the economy and the other pitfalls of his murky Brexit plans.

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Argument Boris Johnson Brexit Conservative Party Democracy General Election 2019 UK Politics

This Election has been a Tsunami of Lies – It’s Time for Some Home Truths

Byline Times Team, 6 December 2019

As the populist Brexit surge shows, we have taken liberal democracy for granted for too long in the UK.

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Argument Brexit Conservative Party General Election 2019 Labour Party UK Politics

Reasons to be Islamophobic: Profiting from the Politics of Fear

Dr Shazad Amin, 5 December 2019

Dr Shazad Amin explains why hatred of Muslims is such a powerful, hidden force in this General Election.

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Argument Culture Extremism Islamophobia Racism Society and Welfare

The Perplexing Predictable Attraction of the Lies, Damn Lies, of the Conservatives

James Melville, 5 December 2019

James Melville sets out the state the Conservatives have left Britain in after nine years in power – and wonders why people are still willing to give them their vote.

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Argument Austerity Boris Johnson Conservative Party Economics, Finance and Money General Election 2019 Society and Welfare Sociology UK Politics

Bad News is not Fake News: Not All Digital Campaigning is Dark Arts

Kyle Taylor, 5 December 2019

Kyle Taylor from the Fair Vote project argues modern microtargeting shouldn't be abandoned to shady billionaire-funded right-wing groups.

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Argument Democracy in Danger Conservative Party General Election 2019 Labour Party Social Media Tech, Data and Algorithms UK Politics

China Must Not Be Allowed to Host the 2022 Olympic Games while it Persecutes its Uyghur Muslims

CJ Werleman, 5 December 2019

The International Olympic Committee must learn from its mistake in proceeding with the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany, says CJ Werleman.

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Argument China Extremism Foreign Affairs History Sport

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