#Politics

The existence of generation left dominates politics in the UK despite being largely ignored in mainstream political discourse. It's the absent yet structuring problem, if you like. When it is
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So Cummings the adviser is doing a public statement and Q&A today because his boss the prime minister got it wrong yesterday.Just think what it means for our politics.Questions I’d
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"But as a trailblazer can she make you cry?"Hey, let's talk about this real quick because we're going to be seeing more of it. (thread) I read Frank Bruni's column
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Musing du jour: I was thinking of a way to explain the current state of US politics to a South African friend (being a naturalized citizen, I get it -
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Bless Bill Barr’s heart - this just couldn’t happen. For starters, the return envelopes have unique bar codes that are scanned when the ballots are received. 1/https://twitter.com/chrismegerian/status/1267434893883179009 An example of
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The Helsinki Accords were signed 45 years ago #otd - but they weren't the revolution in human rights politics that many claim they were.https://historyned.blog/2015/08/01/40-years-later-rethinking-the-helsinki-accords-and-human-rights/
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I was drawn to Obama. His politics. But there was more.I have lived my whole life with a complex hyphenated identity (Iranian-American). For the first time in my life I
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With all the debate and angst within @UKLabour and the calls from Corbynite MPs for shift back to the left, it's worth taking a little magical history tour. Let's go
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Men, hotties in #cdnpoli, a thread. Past, present and future. Doesn’t have to currently in politics and doesn’t have to be an MP. Don’t call me in @andrewdhills Guess who?
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It is absolutely delicious that the same political suspicion directed towards "transsexual" by genderqueers in the Anglo-American 90s - as somehow complicit in oppressive power - is now being directed
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TODAY: @JoeBiden & @KamalaHarris (and Mike Pence) travel to the battleground of Arizona. It has 11 electoral votes and one of the larger Latter-day Saint populations outside of Utah. Pence
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The way we think about and talk about “stupidity” in Britain is both quite interesting and also not very helpful, imohttps://twitter.com/johnjcrace/status/1264471335042002947 It’s a sort of denial of class — the
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Trump destabilized the Middle East with his decision to move the embassy. His abject ignorance of the history and religions that have shaped this moment have given succor to the
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A big factor in this whole "breakup of UK" that many ignore?The politics of self-promotion.Scotland? Krankie doesn't want #IndyRef2, until she is sure she can win it. She knows that's
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WOW. It's been a weird few years in UK politics, but things are now genuinely jaw-dropping. The government has decided to – and I don't know how else you can
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afropessimism harnesses the power of black depression to create...more depression. it also flattens most other styles of black political discourse as naive discourses of “hope”. this ignores the deeper more
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