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Hold on, Harman haters
She’s doing a fine old job representing the gutless mainstream of her party, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
HARRIET HARMAN is getting hated on for declaring Labour won’t oppose the Tories’ benefit cap. Harman also says Labour won’t oppose other cuts in their Welfare Bill, like a benefits freeze.
Something serious is obviously going on here, because words have become their opposite. The “Welfare” Bill is designed to make people fare badly, not fare well. And the Labour opposition has decided it doesn’t want to oppose because they don’t want to represent labouring people.
But I think the Harman haters are a little bit unfair, because Harman is just doing her job as she sees it: she is a conscientious interim Labour leader who wants to stand in the mainstream of the party. And she is only reflecting the policy of the party’s mainstream in not opposing anything the Tories do. In fact lots of worse things are happening inside Labour HQ, but Harriet had the misfortune to be noticed.
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