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The pantomime horse from hell
With Mandelson and Farage galloping into 2025 via Mar-a-Lago and wherever else a land-hungry Trump takes a fancy to, ANDREW MURRAY has a sinking feeling about what the next year has in store

IT IS the pantomime season.
That is the only plausible explanation for the news that Britain is going into 2025 with its strategy for averting being embroiled in inter-imperialist conflict pivoting on a partnership of Peter Mandelson and Nigel Farage.
This combo is the pantomime horse from hell, uniting the progenitor of New Labour with the ascending leader of right-wing nationalist populism.
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