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US rapper Kanye West
US RAPPER Kanye West’s declaration that he is planning to stand for the presidency may be a joke.
It is not clear that West has actually registered anywhere to run. Nor does his declaration amount to a policy platform or even a single-issue cause.
But West’s rebuke to an audience when he made a similar announcement last November – “what are you laughing at?” – seems fair enough given the current incumbent of the Oval Office. If Donald Trump, a TV celebrity with no background in politics, can be president, why not West?
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
