Council Tax Is Broken. Devolution Could Fix It
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We Need a First Minister for Yorkshire (Interview)
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Read MoreHannah Arendt Was Here | The Ontology of Conscience.
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Paul Nuttall: The Last Tory Scouser
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Claims that Nuttall wasn’t present at Hillsborough may be false, but the truth is so much worse...
Read MoreNew globalism: a counterculture that could redraw the world map
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Imagine a world in which the people of California and London shared common citizenship but needed a visa to visit Florida or Cornwall...
Read MoreThe Monday White(house) Wars: Trump Shocks… Clinton Reigns???
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...the Republican Party adapted better to suit the demands of an electorate that demanded something new, while the Democrats maintained that their old guard would continue to serve them, unchanged, as they had in the past. And if this sounds familiar to wrestling fans, that’s because it is. It’s because US politics is now firmly in its own Monday Night Wars.
Read MoreDon’t blame Israel for the tyranny of its right wing, and don’t condemn Naz Shah for being human
Image: Benyamin Netanyahu, painted portrait DDC_1558 // Thierry Ehrmann // Organ Museum
No genuine socialist could justifiably oppose self-determination for the Jewish people, and no socialist Zionist could deny the same right to the people of Palestine. Zionism isn’t the problem. Rightwingers are the problem. Rightwingers are always the problem.
Read MoreClinton, Bush, et al. They’re not hacks, they’re pro wrestlers
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The marks of new are a highly evolved form, and watch wrestling shows with a self-awareness that perhaps was absent at their inception...
Read MoreRenewing Trident – How about we don’t, and say we did?
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Deciding how best to mitigate our hypothetical enemies is proving a thankless task, but we have to be honest about the reality of what we’re proposing.
Read MoreI miss Nick Griffin, and I’m not even sorry…
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In a political landscape dominated by explosive cultural insecurity and an ever rightward-lurching populism, I’m starting to feel a touch of nostalgia for our squishy fascist idol of yesteryear
Read MoreFarage is pro-Europe… It’s the working class he dislikes
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Ukip’s attitudes to the working class are at best ambivalent, if not contemptuous, but can we really call Farage pro-Europe? Admittedly it’s a statement that requires some scrutiny...
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