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The UK is about to do a Bolsonaro. On the 19th July, that beleaguered nation will shift from a managed Covid response (however weak), to an ungoverned one based on pure libertarianism. Or gibberarianism (another neologism, surely new word of the year?) if you will. This involves the withdrawal of all Covid restrictions by the state on the people at that date.
By now, many of will have seen the latest tranche of revelations from the leaked script for ‘They Are Us’….
Appalling levels of violence in South Africa are the sole responsibility of the African National Congress government. The headline reason…
TAPOL is still today very much as Carmel Budiardjo set it up — a small organisation/network of committed staff, volunteers and collaborators, all aiming for a big impact on human rights issues for Aceh, Indonesia and West Papua.
I WISH I could like Louisa Wall. I really do. Labour has so few mavericks in its ranks these days….
Chris has raised again the question of whether those of us who left the Labour Party with Jim Anderton should have stayed and fought the good fight inside the party. It is worth debating.
Dear Mr Campbell, In a recent media interview you said: “We should continue to focus on working conditions and pay…
HERE’S ONE for the “We told you so!” file.
A View from Afar: Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan will present this week’s podcast, A View from Afar, LIVE at midday Thursday where they will analyse: Revelations that the People’s Republic of China has further developed missile silos in its north-west desert. How does this fit with proliferation of nuclear silos in the west?
Labour’s blatant misrepresentation of its own history continues.