‘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.
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The messages being sent out by David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn could not be more different.
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.
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.
Nor in Jeremy’s name neither.
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Jeremy Corbyn is allowing Labour to vote with its conscience but don’t expect the squabbling to stop.
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.
Laughter is the best medicine … for the government benches.
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The Labour leader stands no chance of winning an election if he can’t win over the media.
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…
Radioactive waste.
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Is George Osborne deploying the ‘Deep State’ to secure a long-term nuclear arsenal for Britain?
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…
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Jeremy Corbyn is an interesting chap. He doesn’t look all that dangerous, but he seems to have frightened the life out of the British establishment, not to mention his own political party. True, some would…
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.