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Motorcyclists pass a poster depicting Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega yesterday
“ARE” you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” US authorities infamously asked those entering the country during the cold war.
Nowadays the questions may have changed, but the intention is the same — to keep out undesirables.
It seems that I am one of those undesirables — as well as a communist — finding myself banned from transiting through the US on my way to Nicaragua. “Travel unauthorised,” my ESTA application rejection email said. They don’t tell you why.
Claims that Nicaragua has abolished elections followed a headline that stripped Daniel Ortega’s remarks of their historical and political context. The full speech tells a different story, says BECCA RENK FOSTER
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history