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SICKENING BROMANCE: Tony Blair and Keir Starmer
LAST WEEK, the headline in a New York Times article, “The return of Tony Blair,” drew attention to the least welcome comeback since Freddie Kruger.
The US newspaper had noticed the increasingly public embrace Keir Starmer is offering his predecessor, and Blair’s obvious willingness to take advantage of his restoration in Labour’s favours to advance his agenda.
The advantage for Starmer is that, as the report notes, Blair “has charisma and communication skills that Starmer lacks.”
Our political sphere, stripped of its popular component by decades of neoliberalism, sits apart from the public, writes COLL MCCAIL citing a telling parallel with the writings of French revolutionary Abbe Sieyes
The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP