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Badenoch’s down-punching is now targeting the autistic
The dangerous rhetoric around neurodiversity from the Conservative leadership candidate threatens hard-won protections and social progress, writes CAILEAN McBRIDE
VICTIM BLAMING: Kemi Badenoch has never met a disadvantaged group she didn’t want to scapegoat
Marx and Engels incorporated in their writings a critique of the way that capitalism destroys the environment but it is only in the last half century that environmental concerns have become an integral part of the fight for socialism, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The racist Republican tactic of redistricting to keep Trump and his base in power is turning the clock back to the 1950s, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
With a political crisis engulfing the Labour Party, the case for PR is back on the agenda. TONY BURKE argues trade unions must now engage on changes to our voting system
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
AS THE ongoing carnival of self-implosion that is the Tory leadership contest approaches its bewildering conclusion, no-one should be surprised that the final two contenders are ramping up the rhetoric, presumably to appeal to the most extreme wings of the party membership, if such a thing dare be imagined at this point.
Similarly, it should probably come as no surprise that of the two, it is Kemi Badenoch who has taken the more extreme position. While her rival, Robert Jenrick, is no slouch in the currently vogueish culture wars, he’s a mere armchair general compared to Badenoch’s battle-scarred veteran and this was yet again made apparent last week.
This time, Badenoch took a break from her usual victims — migrants, pro-Palestine protesters and so on — to punch down on another minority, that of the autistic community.
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