As figures from Tucker Carlson to Nigel Farage flirt with neofascist rhetoric and mainstream leaders edge toward authoritarianism through war and repression, the conditions that once nurtured Hitlerism re-emerge — yet anti-war and anti-imperialist sentiments are also burgeoning anew, writes ANDREW MURRAY
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There’s no reason for those who are hard of hearing to be left out of society
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A RECENT street party held by the east London-based Empowering Deaf Society (EDS) offered a glimpse of a whole new world.
Attending, I was struck by how everyone was communicating via sign language. If you did not have sign language you were an outsider.
Founder of EDS, Mangai Sutharsan, made the point that this was how deaf people often felt in day-to-day society when they can so often be excluded.
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