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Is the Labour Party a waste of time?
Is Labour under Starmer now going to Pasokify into oblivion, and was the Corbyn moment just a blip on this journey, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Labour leader Keir Starmer and Deputy Leader Angela Rayner on a walkabout as they visit Seaton Carew seafront while on the election campaign trail
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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
IS the party over? Is the Labour Party just one big waste of time — an energy sponge that exhausts anyone who wants to change Britain?
Many thousands of people seem to feel that way and have resigned their membership.
The turnaround from a growing party that felt like a social movement to Sir Keir Starmer’s bland, beige leadership is too disheartening.
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