Born from exclusion and resistance, black British art has carved out creative space to tell untold stories and challenge racism, says ROGER McKENZIE
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Your Party’s new membership rules pose a deeper question about socialist organisation: should a party lead the working class, or be led by it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
As war engulfs Iran, many expected China to step in as a rising superpower. Instead, Beijing has chosen diplomacy over confrontation – revealing a very different vision of global leadership, argues JENNY CLEGG
The government has few aces up its sleeve when it comes to managing popular anger, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Israel's brutality in Lebanon, combined with efforts to draw the Lebanese government into negotiations, are part of a strategy to delegitimise resistance to occupation and apartheid, argues RAMZY BAROUD
KEITH FLETT looks at the state’s efforts to limit protest rights from the 19th century to today’s repression of the Palestine movement
SKY NEWS correspondent Beth Rigby skewered Boris Johnson at his campaign launch this week, telling him: “You brandish your Brexit credentials, but many of your colleagues worry about your character.” Johnson hammed up his buffoon act, asking why he was being questioned about his “parrot.” Rigby continued: “You brought shame on your party when you described veiled Muslim women as letterboxes and bank robbers.” Unsurprisingly, the audience of the Tory Party faithful booed.
But Johnson skilfully turned it round to a defence of politicians not “muffling and veiling our language, not speaking as we find – covering everything up in bureaucratic platitudes, when what they want to hear is what we genuinely think.”
The trouble is, he’s right. His own modus operandi is that of a total fake — but like Donald Trump, he’ll be let off thanks to the failures of the wider political class.
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