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Jeremy Corbyn’s first People’s Forum handed leadership over to the grassroots not the greedy, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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ANSELM ELDERGILL asks whether artificial intelligence may decide legal cases in the future, in place of human judges, and how AI could reshape the legal landscape
Like pieces on a chess board, centrist parties lose ground as they accommodate rather than challenge far-right agendas — socialists must play things better, warns MATT KERR
Yanis Varoufakis and Jeremy Corbyn laid out a roadmap for peace, justice and equality as they celebrated the legacy of inspirational socialist Tony Benn, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The NEU’s annual conference promises heated debate, with motions on international politics, curriculum reform and union amalgamation likely to provoke strong reactions and challenge the status quo, writes Education for Tomorrow editor ROBERT POOLE
“POWERFUL” and “invigorating” is how Streets Kitchen founder, Jon Glackin, chose to sum up the first Islington North People’s Forum, hosted last week by Jeremy Corbyn, that constituency’s longtime and now independent member of Parliament.
“The flames of hope burn brightly in North London,” Glackin said.
Unshackled by the strictures of the Labour Party, of which he was once the leader but now no longer a member, Corbyn is free to host events of his own creation and initiative. The People’s Forum was his first such venture.
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