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this probably seems like stating the absolutely obvious but here goes: someone says: 'antisemitism in the Labour Party was real *but* was exaggerated by the media - which regularly reported

fwiw I don't think Smeeth is a particularly irritating politician because I think she reports every day to the CIA. It's because she encapsulates brilliantly a politics where you can

the first paid work I ever got that was 'enough paid work to actually pay the rent' came from Paul Laity at Guardian Review, circa 2009, so forgive me if

I've been reading this book lately and it's absolutely wildhttps://books.google.co.uk/books/about/An_Anatomy_of_Sprawl.html?id=NlxSSAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y for Southampton and Portsmouth comrades, if you want to know how S-P became

I feel like everyone thinks I'm a cowardly Menshevik for this but it seems obvious to me this is both andhttps://twitter.com/jemgilbert/status/1263781297966776320 a) Momentum and Corbynism's major success has been an

I'm not sure what sort of politics opinion this is, but whenever I find out someone has gone to/is going to/ teaches at Oxford or Cambridge I always find it

'it is worth noting the irony that Trotskyist grouplets who stress the centrality of ‘grassroots struggle’ and reject narratives of ‘history from above’ are now ready to abandon a 580,000-strong

let's be honest, none of us who lived through New Labour should be surprised by any of thishttps://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1249349956227469314 its politics were based on two things: a) fuck the left, and

allpurpose subtweet: historically when the left is defeated it collapses into paroxysms of crippling mutual recrimination driven by moralistic fury that is obviously a displacement of the rage and impotence

saying you'll do something less harshly and painfully doesn't mean you didn't say you'd do ithttps://twitter.com/HarrietHarman/status/1246511061764841475 eg 'I think you should be sacked with a redundancy payoff' and 'I th