REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP writes that it is time not just to adopt policies that will revitalise the lives of workers, but speak honestly and openly about whose side we are on and who the Labour Party is for: the millions, not the millionaires
Stop dumping on our railways
WHEN first standing for London mayor in 2000, Ken Livingstone was asked by a journalist: “Can you tell us a joke?”
“Salman Rushdie was on a train and it pulled into a station,” he began. “He saw Yasser Arafat and his entourage of bodyguards and was so overcome with the emotion of seeing his great hero, he raced to embrace him. But the bodyguards weren’t very well versed in modern literature and had no idea who he was.
“So they shot him dead, thus proving the value of that old adage: never go for a Shi’ite while the train is in the station.”
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