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Broadband, ‘big tech’ and the BBC’s consistent bias
Anti-Labour pundits on TV aren’t who the BBC say they are — or fails to say they are, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
WHEN the TV news wants a “talking head” on Labour’s proposals to nationalise broadband and provide it freely, they turn to two organisations: the Conservative Party and to TechUK.
Everybody can figure out what the Conservative Party is — it is led by the big guy with the blond hair who says bad things sprinkled with big words that often don’t make his message any clearer.
So we can take our choice. We can think that Johnson’s verbosity means he is very clever. We can accept the Tories’ view that a free-to-use nationalised communications system is “broadband communism.”
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