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Starmer’s Britain sleepwalks toward Farage’s nightmare
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RAGE: Locals confront police
guarding the Holiday Inn
Express in Rotherham during
anti-immigration riots,
Monday August 12 2024
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
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We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
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Reform is on a roll, and it is kicking off the new year with its East Midlands conference on January 3 2025 in my home city of Leicester. A city where Britain’s minority population makes up the majority.
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