DAVE CALFE, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ trade union, writes exclusively for the Morning Star as the union’s five-day annual conference opens in Birmingham
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Proof that the Lib Dems couldn't prove a booze-up in a brewery
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HENRY FOWLER, national co-ordinator for General Strike 100, continued his nationwide tour of partner organisations by joining campaigners and trade unionists in Brighton for the unveiling of a new blue plaque and a full day of commemorative events marking the centenary of the ‘Battle of Lewes Road’
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The collapse of Streeting’s leadership challenge and an opening for Burnham’s potential path back to Parliament have accelerated the battle over what – if anything – Labour still stands for, writes ANDREW MURRAY
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the relationship between law and the humanities
It has been an oft-espoused theory that the Lib Dems couldn't organise a booze-up in a brewery and now we have proof positive.
Not only did they manage to get their posteriors comprehensively handed to them in not just one but two polls, but now their attempts to cast off the albatross round their necks has turned into a self-inflicted decapitation.
How rubbish do you have to be to fail to oust Nick Clegg?
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