Durham Miners’ Association chair STEPHEN GUY speaks to Ben Chacko about the Reform threat, what’s needed from Labour and why the Big Meeting will never lose its politics
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Absurd academic hoax exposes the flaws in modern social sciences
But the hilarity of the recent prank shouldn’t blind us to the intellectual crisis facing academia, writes ADAM LEWINSKI
SO SORRY: Hoaxers call to chain up white children in school echoes the bizarre ‘white apology’ slavery march of earlier American grievance fanatics
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Andy Burnham’s message of hope will defeat Reform if Labour delivers the New Deal for Working People in full, says JOANNE THOMAS
General Federation of Trade Unions president and bakers’ union general secretary, SARAH WOOLLEY, guides us through the GFTU’s Summer School happening this week at Quorn Grange Hotel
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Can Andy Burnham’s programme deliver a productive economy – or merely a softer version of capitalism, asks VINCE MILLS
IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
INTERNET documentary-maker Mike Nayna two days ago released part two of his recent documentary series, following left-wing academics James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose and Peter Boghassian in a detailed experiment testing the intellectual limits of modern academic journals.
The experiment is a rewrite of the Sokal Affair of 1996, in which Alan Sokal successfully published his hoax article Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity in a respected journal.
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