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The EU's on the back foot now, let's press the advantage
DOUG NICHOLLS welcomes the passing of the EU Withdrawal Bill as a decisive moment in history
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
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
THE country’s negotiators are now free from the attempted shackles Remainers were trying to lock them in. With the passing of the EU Withdrawal Bill, It is clear we will be out of the EU on March 29 2019.
Any deal is secondary to that fact because the EU needs us very materially in terms of trade and many other things, far more than we need it.
Parliament has rejected the wrecking amendments from the unelected House of Lords supporting their unelected friends in the European Commission.
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