Corbyn’s intervention exposes a corrupted system, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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Louise Raw talks to JAKE BURNS of Stiff Little Fingers about anti-fascism, life growing up in Belfast, mental health and the capacity of music to spread a political message
Stiff Little Fingers on stage in 2013 and (inset) Jake Burns
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In the second of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
Paul Holden’s The Fraud reveals how a network of donors, MPs and opaque organisations quietly organised to destroy Corbyn’s leadership and manufacture a new centre of power inside Labour, writes JOHN ELLISON
Systems of power enable, excuse and normalise abuse, while survivors are ignored and women’s exploitation is repackaged as commerce and choice, warns CHARLIE WEINBERG
By casting himself as Supreme Pontiff, Donald Trump summoned the ghosts of the church’s most depraved eras, says STEPHEN ARNELL
As assaults on transport staff rise and the Scottish Parliament heads for dissolution, promised legislation to protect rail workers has yet to materialise, says ANN HENDERSON
“Not being an arsehole isn’t actually that hard.”
That was Jake Burns’s no-nonsense response to my Twitter comment that he didn’t seem to have gone the way of so many childhood musical/political heroes.
Not all pull a “Full Morrissey,” but those we have musically loved find numerous ways to disappoint.
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