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Abbott Speaks

November 23, 2024 Longrider 4

Diane Abbott doesn’t like TTK. The 71-year-old, who was elected as the first Black woman MP in 1987, says there is a clear divide in […]

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Quelle Surprise

January 12, 2023 Longrider 3

Oh, you do surprise me. Jewish students faced a ‘hostile’ culture within the National Union of Students (NUS) after it failed to sufficiently challenge antisemitism, […]

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No Sympathy

October 24, 2017 Longrider 6

Ordinarily, I would be taking a hard-line about those who pick over long past comments and use them to condemn someone today. Fifteen years are […]

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Economic Illiterates

June 28, 2017 Longrider 7

Well, count me out. “People’s tolerance for austerity is drying up, even if that means higher taxes,” said Roger Harding, head of public attitudes at […]

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Eh?

May 8, 2017 Longrider 5

Apparently, Labour won’t lose the election because they are too left-wing. It’s all to do with narrative, apparently. Pointing across the despatch box in 2013 […]

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The Politics of Envy

April 22, 2017 Longrider 5

The Guardian, where else? Ian Jack is arguing for Maoist communism, where the state is all and we, the little people, are mere chattels of […]

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Much Joy

February 19, 2017 Longrider 7

In the kingdom of Heaven. But then he began to have doubts about many of the political positions he held and started confronting what he […]

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Hemp Shares to go up?

November 6, 2016 Longrider 0

I’m with Timmy here – there ain’t enough rope. A married couple has been barred from adopting their two young foster children after saying a […]