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Jeremy Corbyn has given hope to my generation. Please don’t let the cynics...
It's easy to be embarrassed about your idealism – especially when the mainstream media have an amazing ability to make your big dreams seem stupid and poorly informed. Admitting to idealism – and...
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The problem with talking about “pregnant people”
Gender-neutral language around reproduction creates the illusion of dismantling a hierarchy – when what you really end up doing is ignoring it.“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a...
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Jeremy Corbyn calls on David Cameron to intervene in Saudi human rights abuses
In his party conference speech, the Labour leader challenged the Prime Minister to condemn oppression in Saudi Arabia. In his speech to Labour party conference, Jeremy Corbyn challenged David Cameron...
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Jeremy Corbyn's speech: where were the clips?
The new Labour leader's first speech to conference lacked a defining moment that would signal to general voters in a nutshell what the party will stand for over the next five years.“This pudding,”...
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Jeremy Corbyn keeps left in a speech of defiance
The Labour leader unashamedly delivered a speech for the activists, not the voters. The early extracts of Jeremy Corbyn's first conference speech suggested a banal address lay ahead. Declarations of...
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Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party conference speech 2015: full text
Read the Labour leader's first speech to party conference. Friends, thank you so much for that incredible welcome and Rohit, thank you so much for that incredible welcome. Rohit, thank you so much for...
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SRSLY #12: Piping Hot Takes
On the pop culture podcast this week, we talk the patronising critical reaction to Ryan Adams’ Taylor Swift cover album, The Great British Bake Off, and The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne...
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How original was Jeremy Corbyn's Labour conference speech?
Chunks of the Labour leader's speech came from passages offered by a speechwriter to Ed Miliband in 2011, and he also used a joke already told by a comedian. Jeremy Corbyn has delivered his first...
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Don't be fooled - housing associations are still under threat
The threat to social housing is still very real, and it hasn't gone away, warns Tom Copley. When I heard that Greg Clark had announced that the government's promised extension of the Right to Buy to...
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Labour is now the biggest party in Britain. That matters more than you think
To help you understand the size of the Labour party, here’s are some figures: Liz Kendall got just 280 fewer votes in fourth place than Tim Farron got in first in the Liberal Democrat leadership race....
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Jeremy Corbyn says he would "never push the button" on Trident
Jeremy Corbyn's interview on the Today programme is a victory for Labour's unilateralists. Jeremy Corbyn has said he would "never" use Britain's nuclear deterrent, even in the event of a nuclear...
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Ditching Twitter’s 140-character limit won't engage its legions of ghost users
Sources at the company say Twitter may ditch the one thing that makes it unique: its 140-character limit. Longform tweets, here we come. Twitter is floundering. The site's user numbers may be growing,...
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The SNP MP Michelle Thomson resigns the whip as police investigate her...
The party's business spokesperson withdraws amid a police probe. A new SNP MP, Michelle Thomson, has voluntarily resigned the party whip. The police are investigating property deals she was involved...
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Andy Burnham thanks Labour conference for imaginary standing ovation
Tempting fate. As your mole writes, Labour's shadow home secretary and turncoat-in-chief Andy Burnham - a man who, it may surprise you to learn, is from the north - is giving his speech to the Labour...
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Jeremy Corbyn has said he’d never use Trident – but what about other leaders?
The “letters of last resort” contain prime ministers’ instructions for what to do in the event that the nuclear deterrent fails. What would you do in the event of nuclear war? It’s one of the first...
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The New Statesman Cover | The Tory Tide
A first look at this week's magazine.2-8 October 2015 issueThe Tory TideFeaturingIan Leslie on the "dangerous character" and risky behaviour of the Conservative radical Michael Gove.Michael Ashcroft...
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Russia begins airstrikes in Syria “at the request of Bashar al-Assad”
Sources in Washington report being given an hour to clear Syrian airspace as Russia votes for military intervention. Russia has reportedly begun airstrikes against Isis in Syria “at the request of the...
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Meet the master storyteller keeping Morocco's oral tradition alive in the...
Amid declining numbers of storytellers, veteran performer Ahmed Ezzarghani's ambition is to rescue Morocco's thousand-year-old tradition of storytelling from the era of technology. The art of...
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What I learned from the first Miss Transgender UK pageant
The first prize was £10,000 for surgery – I couldn't help but think this is what the NHS would look like if Simon Cowell or Piers Morgan was in charge. As I arrived at the venue for the first Miss...
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Tom Watson delivers a stark warning to the Corbynites
Deputy leader calls for party to move on from "summer of introspection" and hails New Labour achievements. One of the things that most troubled Labour MPs about Jeremy Corbyn's speech was how little...
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