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Lowering the voting age is a distraction
A Labour manifesto pledge to drop the voting age to 16 sidesteps the pressing issue of proportional representation and Britain’s democratic deficit, argues ALAN STORY
Voters queue outside St Andrews Church polling station in Balham, south London, before voting closes for the 2019 general election
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
KILLING two birds with one stone is not an idea favoured by twitchers or ornithologists.
But it is a tactic that definitely appeals to handlers for political parties trying to shift an unhelpful narrative.
Those behind Labour Party leader Keir Starmer think he is onto a winner by promising that lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 will be included in the next Labour manifesto.
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