TUC president and POA leader STEVE GILLAN speaks to Ben Chacko on the eve of Congress 2026
DURING one of the few TV election debates Boris Johnson did manage to appear in, Jeremy Corbyn said that he would give Johnson a copy of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol as a Christmas present.
Needless to say this got the Daily Telegraph going. Melanie McDonagh opined that there was nothing socialist about Dickens or about the book in particular.
She was certainly right about that but as several comments underlined she had failed to grasp the point that Dickens, and indeed Corbyn, was actually making.
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