‘You poor deluded people’
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Dennis Potter’s Nigel Barton Plays, 50 years old this month, are the original satires on the vileness of modern politics.
Jim McMahon ran a local campaign.in Oldham.
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Labour candidate Jim McMahon wins with a comfortable majority – without really mentioning his party leader at all.
Hilary Benn, in the middle of his “tour de force” speech.
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Hilary Benn’s powerful intervention is bound to have some people thinking about the future of the party.
Benn gave an interesting reading of the Spanish Civil War.
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The shadow foreign secretary certainly impressed when debating intervention in Syria – but he gave an odd account of the Spanish Civil War.
The battle continues.
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Moderates could try to change the rules or seek another leadership contest, but the left has this one locked up for now.
Who’s behind him?
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The Labour leader has made a virtue of voting against his party line for many years. Now his party appears to be striking back.
All is not well in the Labour camp.
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An almighty row has broken out about whether MPs should be whipped when the time comes to decide on airstrikes.
Look out behind you: Jeremy Corbyn replies to David Cameron’s defence statement.
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Corbyn can’t replicate his wider popularity among MPs. Will it cost him?
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The Labour leader is hoping to recruit a new generation of activists in one of his party’s strongest cities.
Here we go again.
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Pointless pickets, factional infighting, grandstanding support for the oppressed – haven’t we been here before?
New era of straight talking for Labour. And that’s what worries the party’s MPs.
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When it was announced that Seumas Milne, the Guardian columnist and associate editor, had been appointed as Labour’s executive director of communications and strategy, sections of the press were vitriolic…
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It’s unfair to call Lord Adonis a political ‘Judas’. He’s a policy specialist who has always aimed for the centre ground.
Nothing to see here.
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After being called the “most dangerous man in British politics”, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn decided to use his first party conference in Brighton to show he is as normal and British as a cup of milky…
How do you turn a selfie into a vote?
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The new Labour leader wants to build on new support that swept him to power.
New broom. Corbyn and McDonnell are building a new economic policy.
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One of Jeremy Corbyn’s picks for his economic advisory team is doubtful about the viability of a Robin Hood tax, but sees little obstacle to public ownership in the banking sector.
Keeping it casual.
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Under enormous pressure from friends and enemies alike, Labour’s new leader attempted to walk a desperately difficult line.
Not everyone thinks Corbyn needs spin.
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Corbyn appears to see public relations as the pioneers of the profession in the UK saw it, as an add-on to civic society.
Harder than it looks.
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Can the party remember what it stands for at its annual conference?
Standing up straight.
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It seems Jeremy Corbyn’s new shadow chancellor knew better than to get bogged down in specifics so soon.
The Economic Freedom Fighters’ entry into parliament is the most dramatic example of political realignment in South Africa.
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The Marikana massacre of 2012 triggered strikes across South Africa and political realignment. But could this, and the formation of the United Front to rival the ANC, have long-term significance?