The Notting Hill Carnival cannot be reduced to corporate slogans about diversity. Its joy has always been political. It says that people who were attacked, excluded, and policed will not...
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Learn to understand and how to reply to the Tory media’s school of distortion and falsification
The Times on 8 December provided such a classic example of the chief methods of Tory media distortion that it is worth analysing. It is in an article headlined ‘Stop the War forced into new retreat.’ Examining this story provides a general lesson for the left in how to reply to the habitual distortion of the Tory media.
Boris Johnson’s correct choice on Syria – it is necessary to fight on the side of Assad & Russia against ISIS
Boris Johnson supported the catastrophic invasion of Iraq, launched by Bush and Blair, which is the cause of the present chaos in the Middle East and the rise of global terrorism it has resulted in. Like the bombing of Libya the Iraq invasion turned previously powerless jihadist terrorists into a powerful force. Above all the people of the Middle East but also those in Paris, San Bernardino, and Mali are paying for that with their lives.
Even the Labour right should accept that Hilary Benn’s position is unviable
The Sunday newspapers are carrying stories presenting Orwellian ‘double speak’ on the situation in the Labour Party – that is words which are the exact opposite of their real meaning (in Orwell’s 1984 the Ministry of Peace carried on war).
The significance of Labour’s big Oldham victory for British politics
Labour’s victory against the Tories in the Oldham by-election was a landslide. Labour’s share of the vote rose by 7.5%, the Tories’ fell by 9.7%.
Hilary Benn’s fake struggle against ISIS
December 2nd in the House of Commons saw one of those pantomimes that if it did not result in the death of thousands of people could form the basis of a Whitehall farce.