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Deselected, disowned, cast out: why Starmer keeps up his war on the left
As the prospect of a Labour government looks likely — according to the polls at least — ANDREW MURRAY explains why the party leadership are still hell-bent on defenestrating the remaining left-wing MPs
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
JOHN PERRY, BECCA RENK and ROGER D HARRIS offer a corrective to the idea that Latin America still lags far behind the West on women’s rights by looking at the region’s significant feminist gains now stretching back decades
Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
EVERYONE has now noticed that left-wing campaigners are being more or less entirely excluded from nomination for Labour parliamentary candidates in winnable seats.
Local Labour members are not rejecting left candidates — Keir Starmer’s apparatus at party headquarters, seizing on any justification, however absurd, is ruling them out of consideration.
Emma Dent Coad, who actually won Kensington for Labour in 2017 for the first time ever, is only the best-known of those victimised. It is estimated that of 40 decent Labour prospects at the next general election where a candidate has been chosen, only one is from the left. Black men in particular are being blocked.
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