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Now as a glossy monthly magazine The word is now available in The people’s bookshop in Durham. The new edition will be available in many other bookshops around the country…
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BBC LAUGHED AT BABIES BEING BLOWN UP
Trump or Harris?Calgula or Nero?
Money and Mental Health-what is the connection?
Israel IDF complicit in killings of many Israeli hostages during October 7th
Israel admits apache helicopters fired on their own civilians running from the Supernova music festival
Can we please not forget that Netanyahu historically supported – Jemima Goldsmith
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Follow: Cliff Jones
POLITICS is about values, not power. It is about the inclusive discussion of social issues such as fairness, justice and even, guess what, equality. And it is also about the consensual arrival at agreement. Yes, we might lose a few arguments but we consent to the values we have collectively decided upon.
In the Ancient Greek Polis how else did the people make decisions about social behaviour? VALUES are IT! I recently read an account of an interview with Yvette Cooper, she…
Some points and questions.
1. We have 650 members of the House of Commons. Jeremy Corbyn is trying to persuade them to agree that participation in war must be subject to their democratic vote.…
Not a minute on the day, not a penny off the pay.
That was a trade union slogan in response to Churchill’s budget of 1925. When he delivered that budget in the House of Commons it was met with cheers by stupid…
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