Zarah Sultana’s recent brave criticisms of Labour from 2015 to 2020, including Brexit triangulation, IHRA capitulation and insufficient fighting spirit, have ruffled feathers but started an essential discussion, writes ANDREW MURRAY
An insult to the war dead
The Paddy McGuffin column
RIDDLE me this: When is a memorial unveiling not a memorial unveiling?
Answer: When it’s a crassly cynical propaganda exercise which sneers at democratic principles and thumbs its nose at international law.
That was exactly the case this week when the new edifice purporting to pay tribute to those British soldiers and civilians killed by political cowardice and imperialist adventurism in Afghanistan and Iraq was revealed at a lavish ceremony in London.
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