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Ireland — perhaps you’ve heard of it?
How about dropping pretensions of making Britain great again via or in spite of the EU — and freeing England’s oldest colony, suggests REUBEN BARD-ROSENBERG
The left has become too reliant on persuasion and too detached from the workplaces and communities it seeks to represent, argues NICK TROY
The US-Israeli conflict with Iran has had far-reaching consequences, including a boost to Pakistan’s regional standing, argues ROGER McKENZIE
The recent heatwaves revealed how ill-prepared Britain remains for a hotter future – and how unequal the ability to cope with it has become, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The drive to strengthen European defence is reshaping relations between France, Germany, Italy and Britain, says NICK WRIGHT
The UN blames gangs for Haiti’s turmoil, while ignoring decades of foreign intervention and support for an unelected government that lie at the heart of the country’s continuing crisis, says RUBEN BRETT
SOMETHING strange occurred in the spring of 2017. An election was held. The parliamentary arithmetic aligned in an unprecedented fashion. And lots of people in England were rudely awakened to the fact that we continue to maintain a colony in Ireland.
Don’t get me wrong. I sympathised with people, especially women, who felt fearful about the prospect of ultra-reactionary Ulster Loyalists holding the balance of power in Parliament. But a part of me was a bit like “seriously libs, have you only just noticed these numpties?”
For whilst the degree of Loyalist power at Westminster was a novelty, the people of the Six Counties have, for many long years, been subjected to the moral and political bellenditude of the Democratic Unionist Party and similar political forces.
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A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
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