Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says assessing a Labour leader whose mission was to smash the left must involve addressing the delusions that fuelled his rise
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Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU was a rejection of the political Establishment and the strategic direction pursued by Britain’s ruling class since the second world war, writes ALEX GORDON
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MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
IT ALL started when my friends Jenny and Jon took their five-year-old twins, Polly and Freddie, to see the Robin Hood pantomime at the Milton Keynes Theatre in the week before Christmas.
They thought hard about the dangers of Covid, they even asked my advice, but they had both had two jabs and a booster and they guessed the theatre would be encouraging masks and social spacing.
On balance they thought the cultural benefits to the twins outweighed the risks. Who doesn’t love a pantomime?
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