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It's too hard to get involved in the Labour party. I'm running for the NEC to...
In the first of a series, Bex Bailey, a candidate for Labour's NEC, puts her case. Today it was announced I will be on the ballot paper for Labour’s National Executive Committee elections so I can...
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Even Boris’s senior colleagues dread Tory activists handing him the keys to...
When a politician becomes entertainment first and foremost there is a danger that he, or she, may lack the requisites of statesmanship. Some people feel that Boris Johnson can do no wrong. They are...
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Morning Call: The best from Gibraltar
A selection of the best articles about politics, business and life on the Rock from the last seven days. You may have noticed that there’s going to be a referendum on whether Britain should stay in the...
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Watch: The Donald defends the size of his Trump
The birther movement becomes the girther movement. */ So this is how a proud nation dies. At last night's Republican presidential debate, one of the moderators asked Florida Senator Marco Rubio why...
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What the untold Soviet history of “Red Africa” reveals about the racism of...
Artists are attempting to resurrect a piece of cultural history that has been buried, but also highlight the difficulty experienced by black people in Putin’s Russia.*/ Modern Russia has a reputation...
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Could Labour stand candidates in Northern Ireland?
There is a growing appetite in the local party - but both the diaspora and the national party fear the consequences. In the last few weeks of 2015, the Labour Party in Northern Ireland voted...
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How Half Man Half Biscuit have forged a career mocking middle-class idiocy
In a world in which chav-baiting is the norm, Nigel Blackwell nails the grotesqueness of the caring, sharing BoBos: the bohemian bourgeoisie. It took me four decades to learn the lesson that meeting...
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Watch: David Cameron's appalling attempt at a Scottish accent
Tartan Tory. David Cameron has made a speech in Scotland today. And if that's not chilling enough, he attempted to bring to life a Scottish man he met "in a chip shop" during his address. Watch him...
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Facebook may pay “millions” in tax in future, but it still only paid £4,327...
The company previously paid tax on its UK operations through Ireland. So what has happened, exactly? According to today's headlines, Facebook, notable for its tiny, four-figure corporate tax bills...
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Can games with a “message” teach us something? And can they still be fun?
Games teach us to overcome challenges. This part of the experience is hugely fertile ground to state a political case or challenge a prevailing school of thought While most videogame developers will...
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The Ghostbusters trailer shows the new film is categorically not aimed at men
No wonder so many middle-aged, male fans of the original are disappointed. The way film trailers are produced and edited says a lot about a movie’s intended audience: possibly more than the film...
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Jeremy Corbyn's path may be harder than we thought - but it is the right one
The answer to bad poll ratings and electoral setbacks is not to soften Corbyn’s political approach, but neither is it to assume that radical ideas will bring themselves victory. It’s beginning to sink...
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Exit one smooth bald Swiss career administrator at Fifa - and enter another
After a day of glazed electioneering, Gianni Infantino has been elected. Arguably, this does count as progress. It would be easy to sniff at the recently concluded Fifa presidential election. After a...
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Why we should remember Aaron Swartz - the prodigy who wanted information to...
I agree, as Swartz wrote in 2008, that "there is no justice in following unjust laws", and the movement to protect the free internet from corporate and political interests is urgent. The young Mozart,...
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When it comes to pension discrimination, it is likely that the worst is yet...
Don’t assume that discrimination does not hit at both ends of working life or that the gender pay gap does not translate seamlessly into a gender pension gap. I’ve noticed something about successive...
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Bernie Sanders, the Red Mayor who wanted more
Harry Jaffe's new book sets out to discover how a “74-year-old Jewish guy from Brooklyn” ended up appealing to college students, farmers and factory hands as a potential president.“The concentration...
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The wild mountains of Wales, Carwyn on Corbyn and why Plaid Cymru isn’t the SNP
We love our politics on Radio 2, so we’re a little shocked when the Plaid Cymru leader, Leanne Wood, tells us that “devolution has been boring”. My father always used to pretend he was Welsh. It was...
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Worried about juvenile spring eruption? Start by consulting Mumsnet
Posts reporting medical consultations showed I was far from the only doctor never to have encountered JSE. But someone was eventually diagnosed on every thread. A few years ago, a mother brought her...
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Empire’s martyrs: the British obsession with heroic failure
The British take a perverse pleasure in glorious defeat, as Heroic Failure and the British by Stephanie Barczewski examines. In 1799 the Scottish explorer Mungo Park published Travels in the Interior...
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Darius Guppy: My old friend Boris is wrong on Brexit
At the centre of the Leave camp’s message resides one crucial concept: sovereignty. But could they have misunderstood what that implies? At the centre of the Leave camp’s message resides one crucial...
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