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THERE is something very uplifting in the state of the modern world, if recent events are anything to go by.
The spirt of the 21st century is surely not with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and similar unpleasant demagogues, but with those ordinary Hungarians who passed out water and sweets to the defiantly collective march of Syrian refugees to the Austrian border.
And it’s with with ordinary Viennese people, who so crowded the railway station on a similar mission that they were asked to stop coming in such numbers; and with clapping and cheering German citizens in Munich who showed lessons to some Britons who have yet to learn that humility and compassion are the hallmarks of civilisation.
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare