Capitalism’s grim calculation
When the Covid-19 lockdown was announced, was I the only person to think how crazy is capitalism? So everything shuts […]
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Hold your nose and vote?
Ayesha Hazarika’s advice in her Evening Standard column echoes what many political commentators have suggested. From their point of view
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Is nationalising broadband a ‘crazed communist scheme’?
The Labour Party’s announcement that they will provide free fibre broadband to every home in the country by 2030 has
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Should we vote Labour?
I have been looking at several left-wing websites, hoping to find a rationale for the position I have decided to
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Do we need billionaires?
When Jeremy Corbyn said a fair society would not contain billionaires, it did not seem controversial to me. The existence
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#whattheysaid – Yasmin Alibhai Brown on parliamentary democracy
‘I am really proud of the parliamentarians. Some of them have taken a great risk, knowing that their own constituents
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Fear of election
The parliamentary opposition are running scared. It is not Boris Johnson they fear, it is the anger of the working
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Labour comes out for Remain
I was in Wales at the weekend where I saw a Sunday morning political programme. All 8 of the parties
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A bigot accuses us of xenophobia
Mathew d’Ancona is a columnist in the London Evening Standard and the Guardian. He is also a bigot. In
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A ‘proud Fenian’ has his say
James McClean plays for Stoke City, and has chosen not to wear a poppy. In a home game against Middlesborough