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The real political divide right now is between reality and fantasy

Could the battle of left versus right be a thing of the past? So I’ve got a new MP; as I’m sure you will have heard, last week Zac Goldsmith managed to lose a majority of 25,000 in Richmond Park to be unseated by the endearingly gobsmacked-looking Liberal Democrat candidate Sarah Olney. This has been […]

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What Boris Johnson really tells us about the state of Britain

The Foreign Secretary thinks he’s re-creating Britain’s imperial past. In fact, he acts like he’s in ‘Allo ‘Allo, and is turning the UK into a Twilight Zone of bunting and marching bands ‘The biggest stitch-up since the Bayeux tapestry.’ That’s how the Right Honourable Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, currently Secretary of State for Foreign […]

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How normalising Breitbart News energises the victory of racists

The ‘post-truth’ era is upon us and we must fight to stop it becoming the norm, argues Bonnie Greer UK Independence Party (UKIP) leadership hopeful Raheem Kassam delivers a speech in Westminster, London, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. Raheem Kassam delivered a campaign speech in the pub Friday, ahead of the expected upcoming party leadership vote. […]

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Mitch Benn on how to be anti-semitic without really trying

So Jeremy Corbyn was, entirely un-unexpectedly, re-elected leader of the Labour Party and was feted (and immortalised in verse) by an adoring membership in my old hometown of Liverpool. Like most politically unaffiliated liberal intellectual smart-arses, I am unsure how I feel about this. The major objection one encounters to The Corbyn Project is his […]

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Bonnie Greer on how Trump, Farage and Johnson have been able to channel the anger of the disaffected

Looking at this tweet which just went out the other day, I was reminded of that undoubtedly hot night just this past August in Mississippi, when Nigel Farage strode out on to the stage of a Donald Trump rally. https://twitter.com/prweekuknews/status/775295684178247680 This was one of modern politics’ most beautifully symmetrical moments. Here they were – the […]

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Writer and pundit Bonnie Greer gives her searing take on the passions stirring change across our contradictory landscape

The hottest book in America right now is a memoir by Silicon Valley executive J. D. Vance. It’s called: Hillbilly Elegy. It is the poignant and eye-opening memoir of a son of what are called in the US ‘white trash’; ‘rednecks’; ‘hillbillies’. They are the descendants of the Scotch/Irish-people who came to America as indentured […]