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Robert Saunders
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As Orwell understood, waging war against imaginary enemies serves to entrench abritrary power, not to challenge it. If @BBradley_Mans shares Orwell's concerns about diversity of thought, tolerance of dissent &
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The govt has decided to shut down the online Parliament. In future, only those present in the Chamber will be allowed to take part. The Speaker's letter on this has
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3. Govts have always tried to narrate events in a way that suits them. But it feels, increasingly, as if controlling the narrative is *all* that matters: that narrating Brexit
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There seems to be a certain kind of columnist that no longer recognises any obligation to the "truth". Boris Johnson is, of course, the prime example: he always looks baffled
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Why is it so important that Parliament resumes, and what should it be doing? Some thoughts, following last night's @BBCNewsnight interview. [THREAD]https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p089m8mx 1. Britain is a parliamentary democracy. At UK-level,
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Whoever becomes Labour leader today, one positive outcome is assured: no one will regard them as the Messiah. They will be treated as a flawed invidual who makes mistakes &
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