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Starmer adopts Cold War rhetoric
ANDREW MURRAY dissects Keir Starmer proclivity for subservience to the Establishment's attitudes in the Ukraine crisis
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
JOHN PERRY, BECCA RENK and ROGER D HARRIS offer a corrective to the idea that Latin America still lags far behind the West on women’s rights by looking at the region’s significant feminist gains now stretching back decades
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The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
SIR KEIR STARMER stood for election as Labour leader on the basis of 10 policies. Today, they have been reduced to one: “I’m not Jeremy Corbyn.”
That has been made clearer than ever by his response to the Ukraine crisis. Starmer has made no positive proposals, and has not even endorsed the diplomatic initiatives taken by leaders who he might be thought closer to, like France’s Macron and Germany’s Scholz.
Instead, he has stoutly supported the government, which has itself been out on a limb in its provocative intransigence around the crisis. Starmer saved his withering fire for the Stop the War Coalition and Jeremy Corbyn.
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