Brexit has been poorly handled by both major parties, and the only viable option now is to put a second vote to the people.
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As the UK careens towards a disastrous “no-deal” Brexit, the only sensible option is to put another vote to the people, now the implications of leaving the EU are clearer.
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The Labour leader has cautiously backed a fresh vote – and that’s all parliament needs to get the debate going.
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The shadow foreign secretary’s attack on departing Labour MPs is out of step with public feeling.
The seven MPs who have quit to form the Independent Group.
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A group of MPs has cited Brexit, anti-semitism and Corbynism more broadly as motivations to leave.
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Faced with an intractable problem, bravery is needed. Instead, the only thing on offer is playground politics.
Corbyn has a big demand and a big ambition.
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Corbyn says he won’t talk to the prime minister until she takes no-deal Brexit off the table. But will his gamble deliver the election he wants?
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The Labour leader insists he wants ‘no-deal Brexit’ off the table before sitting down with the prime minister. But that’s not the full picture.
It has been a rollercoaster week for protestors outside parliament.
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She stays on as PM but that doesn’t leave her Brexit deal in any better shape.
Some really mixed messages out there.
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While many staunch Conservatives would see Norway-plus as a ‘betrayal’, everyone else could probably live with it – unless and until they realise it won’t put a stop to free movement.
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Required is a new fantasy which combines a global perspective with a radical desire for change.
Corbyn tabled a vote, but not the vote people had wanted.
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For anyone wondering, not for the first time, what on earth just happened in parliament?
Protesters face off with riot police during a march against president Daniel Ortega in Managua, Nicaragua, on September 16, 2018.
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Hundreds have died in a government crackdown in the Central American country, and Labour’s reaction is worrying.
These two have failed to come up with a solution to this problem.
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We can’t agree what the ‘will of the people’ was in 2016, but these are the representatives they elected in 2017.
Viktor Orban and Matteo Salvini, two of Europe’s best known ‘populist’ leaders.
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It’s a slippery concept but academics have reached agreement on some of its fundamental elements.
Divided Britain.
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Theresa May’s Brexit plan has crumbled on contact with the reality of UK and EU politics.
..and he knows it.
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Momentum’s position is increasingly out of step with the Labour leadership’s on this issue.
Blue skies over Preston’s renovated Brutalist bus station.
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Four factors led to positive change that was part planned, part felicitous – but the Preston model is already catching on across the nation.
Imperial Federation Map of the World showing the extent of the British Empire.
The Empire in red in 1886, by Walter Crane
Students need to be taught about colonialism’s dark past.
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Constructive ambiguity on the biggest issue of the day works in opposition, but Labour wants to be in government before long.
Jeremy Corbyn speaks at an anti-Trident protest organised by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 2016.
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Labour should not accept nuclear power as an inevitable part of its climate policies.