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Sharon Graham re-elected Unite general secretary in landslide victory
'The trust that members have placed in me will be fully repaid as we step up our focus on delivering for workers.'
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Fabian’s column: It’s time to get serious about tech sovereignty
Sasjkia Otto is a senior researcher at the Fabian Society. Her research covers technology, labour markets and ageing. Manchester – birthplace […]
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Nigel Farage wants us to think Clacton is a victory. Here’s why it’s not.
Farage may have won the Clacton by-election on paper, but the contest’s “vibes” told a very different story, argues Best for Britain’s Cary Mitchell
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Successive governments have allowed the voices of Kashmiris to be marginalised
The United Kingdom must now show the moral courage to act. Above all, it must ensure that the inalienable human rights of Kashmiris remain at the heart of any lasting and peaceful resolution.
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If Andy Burnham wants to deliver power in every postcode, he has to overhaul our broken democracy
If it doesn't happen, "power in every postcode" will take its place alongside levelling up: a phrase that moved attention around the country without ever moving power.
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Why Britain Must Give Venezuela Back Its Gold
On 24th June, two massive earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude struck within seconds of each other just off the […]
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Andy Burnham can’t transform the country while sticking to the current fiscal rules
Sticking to the 2024 election manifesto and fiscal rules will make it harder for him to deliver the headline promises and the change that he has paraded.
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Woke-Bashing of the Week: SS Great Britain didn’t ‘go woke,’ but the Telegraph couldn’t resist implying it did!
Bristol has long occupied a special place in the anti-woke imagination.
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Right-Wing Media Watch: Burnham’s cabinet has barely begun, but the meltdown is in full throttle
One cannot help noticing that Fahnbulleh also embodies several of the characteristics that reliably attract hostility from the right-wing press – Black, left-wing, female, highly accomplished, and a close political ally of Ed Miliband.
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The disturbing mainstreaming of remigration in Europe and Britain
How an extremist idea rooted in the 'Great Replacement' conspiracy is increasingly shaping mainstream immigration policy.
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Woke-Bashing of the Week: Culture vultures sweep on Little House on the Prairie, not realising the original was as ‘woke’ as they come
The American frontier was never as uniformly white as popular culture suggested. Acknowledging that fact is not "wokeifying" history. It’s recognising that history was always more complicated than the myths Americans, and television, liked to tell.