Real Help Now BBC News The Guardian Manchester Evening News The F-Word LabourListLots of noise yesterday about George Osbourne’s claim that the Tories are carrying the ‘torch of progressive politics‘.
I’ve actually never been a big fan of the word ‘progressive’. I think it tends to be used in the Labour Party by people who don’t want to use the word ’socialist’. But what does it mean to [...]
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Sorry, this post is going to be a bit massive. Like I said I’ve been meaning to do this for ages, and since I started it I’ve been delayed by swine flu and #freeBevaniteEllie and stuff.
In the couple of months since I was last regularly blogging, I have…
- been listening to a lot of Lily [...]
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A good friend of mine has spent part of this week arguing, over the internet, with some of the more opinionated and right-wing students at his university, which is full of opinionated and/or right wing students. (Yeah, that one.) I’m not going to go into the details of the argument because it makes me upset [...]
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Got the following email from Hope Not Hate today:
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Thanks to the expense scandals we’re in a tough spot.
Voters are turning away from the traditional political parties – and the BNP are cranking up their propaganda machine to try to take advantage.
Politicians have let every person in Britain down. Lots of people could be considering staying [...]
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