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The eternal sunshine of the centrist mind
SOLOMON HUGHES asks who the real political grown-ups are: the straight-talking Laura Pidcock or the neoliberal ‘moderates’?
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth
Once again, our broad-based coalition outnumbered the anti-migrant protest in Faversham, but tackling the sentiment behind this wave of anger requires explaining the real reasons pushing millions into leaving their homelands, argues NICK WRIGHT
High pressures squeeze and crush, but low pressures damage too. Losing the atom-level buzz that keeps us held safe in the balance of internal and external pressure releases dangerous storms, disorientation and pain, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
EDMUND GRIFFITHS makes a robust defence of sortition, the chosen method of picking attendees for the new left party’s inaugural conference from the membership at random, but sounds the alarm on the eye-watering number of suggested delegates
The NEU kept children and teachers safe during the pandemic, yet we are disgracefully slandered by the politicians who have truly failed our children by not funding a proper education recovery programme — here’s what is needed, explains KEVIN COURTNEY
THERE is a regular, plaintiff cry from the “moderate” centre of politics that goes like this: “Can we have the grown-ups back?”
It’s a cri de coeur from those who believe in their hearts that centrist politics comes from sensible, grown-up heads. Their ideas are adult, thought-through, sensible. The left’s ideas are naive, silly, childish and unachievable.
But drawing the left as the Kevin and Perry of politics and the “moderates” as their long-suffering parents is itself based on a deep strain of naivety among the supposedly “sophisticated” technocrats. A naivety that has been on display for decades.
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