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The “Battle of Cable Street” has become part of British lore as a stand against fascism, but its true history shows the country’s enduring legacy of white supremacy and colonialism. ...[Read more]
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An 11-year-old primary school pupil was referred to the government’s controversial counter-radicalisation Prevent programme after a teacher mistook the word “alms” for “arms” during a classroom discussion.
The boy’s teacher asked what pupils ...[Read more]
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A few month ago we reported on documents which revealed secret British 'Strategic Communication' programs in support of the Jihadis who fight against the Syrian people and their government.
In December documents of a different secret program revealed simi ...[Read more]
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A British laboratory has bred almost 180,000 mice by mistake. It also performed unauthorised experiments on the creatures, according to a Home Office report, which highlights dozens of shocking non-compliance cases in UK labs. ...[Read more]
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Britain has not fought in a just conflict since the Second World War, Jeremy Corbyn has said.
During a speech at Chatham House in London, the Labour leader was asked about British deployment of troops to areas of conflict since the end of the Second Worl ...[Read more]
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A quarter of property in England and Wales owned by overseas firms is held by entities registered in the British Virgin Islands, BBC analysis has found.
The Caribbean archipelago is the official home of companies that own 23,000 properties - more than any ...[Read more]
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It was the true story that moved a Tory to tears: Heidi Allen, Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire, wept after Frank Field, the veteran Labour MP for Birkenhead in Wirral, told parliament of the hungry constituent who said he had had “a lucky week� ...[Read more]
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UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been awarded the Sean MacBride Peace Prize along with Noam Chomsky and Japanese anti-military base activists, yet the award received scant coverage in the British media.
The International Peace Bureau presents the Sean M ...[Read more]
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The body of a homeless man was found tragically 'frozen to death' in Birmingham's city centre on the coldest night of the year.
Police were called to a car park entrance in Station Road at 11.30pm Wednesday after a local drinking in the nearby boozer disc ...[Read more]
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There used to be a time when Britain’s opinion mattered as much as that of the United States or Europe. The US, for all the jaw-dropping buffoonery with Donald Trump as president, remains the dominant superpower, and the European Union is still a combin ...[Read more]
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Jeremy Corbyn will say the chancellor, Philip Hammond, is right to call the Labour party an “existential challenge to our economic model” as he pledges to lead a government that will overturn the economic status quo. ...[Read more]
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