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The BBC uses contrived Covid controversy to back its ‘one-party state’ stance
There is no popular demand for ‘anti-lockdown’ policies, in fact quite the opposite — but you’d never know from the overrepresentation of Tory groups and gripes in the media. Even dissent is now limited to the ruling party, laments SOLOMON HUGHES
EASY RIDE: Even Johnson’s critics come from the pro-Tory press
In the third of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE
The Mandelson scandal reveals a political settlement in which democratic choice is curtailed and the power of markets eclipses the will of voters – only the left can challenge this, writes JON TRICKETT MP
NICK WRIGHT recalls one man’s journey from student revolutionary to Labour grandee – part of a wider world of working-class militants and communist activists whose lives shaped a generation and who should not be forgotten
Paul Holden’s book, The Fraud, exposes a hidden war inside Labour, where claims of anti-semitism, amplified by media power and factional networks, were used to break Corbynism and recast the party. JOHN ELLISON revisits the scandals, investigations and suppressed evidence from that era
THE other day I woke up to the BBC Radio news. The headline story was that “dozens of Conservative MPs have written to the Prime Minister to demand that he commit to removing all Covid-19 legal restrictions by the end of April.”
It was a bizarre, reckless, self-defeating plan, which even Boris Johnson rejected. But how it became such big news tells us something about the artificiality of mainstream politics right now.
The letter calling for the lifting of all lockdown measures by April was created by what the BBC termed the “lockdown-sceptic Covid Recovery Group (CRG),” with around 63 members. If you look at BBC news, this minority group of Tory backbenchers are regularly asked about their demands to lift the lockdown.
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