Book review. Bad News For Labour: Antisemitism, The Party & Public Belief by Greg Philo et al.
by Ian Sinclair
Peace News
December 2019-January 2020
The headline findings from this new co-authored Glasgow Media Group (GMG) study of the anti-semitism controversy in the Labour Party are astonishing.
It’s The Media, Stupid
Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
20 January 2020
As soon as the general election was called for the Tories, liberal commentators moved quickly to shut down debate about the role of the media in the defeat of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.
Basil Valentine
21st Century Wire
The antics of the Princes Andrew and Harry have hardly covered the House of Windsor in glory over the last few weeks, the result of their various shenanigans being an increasing number of Britons are scratching their heads and wondering what worthwhile purpose the 1200 year old institution of Monarchy could possibly serve in the 21st Century.
Rebutting Tory attack lines: Antisemitism and Labour
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
23 November 2019
Rebutting Tory attack lines: crime and punishment
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
22 November 2019
Earlier this month the Guardian reported the Tories hope to win Labour seats at the general election “with a tough stance on law and order”.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss Boris Johnson’s negotiations with Brussels, as the end of January deadline fast approaches. The EU’s unelected President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, admits that the EU is ‘very worried’.
Von der Leyen warned that Brussels may need to extend the deadline for talks about a new trade relationship with the UK.
The two major political parties, the Conservatives and Labor, are mere shadows of their former selves. Fresh from a major landslide victory in England, the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is now a hard-right party. Traditional Tories like Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Winston Churchill, and Kenneth Clarke, the grand old man of Conservative Party politics, were expelled as members of the Conservative ranks sitting in the House of Commons as a result of their September 2019 vote against Johnson’s government and their pro-European Union positions.
Caitlin JOHNSTONE
There’s a wildly under-appreciated clip of news footage from Thursday’s general election in the UK that, now that everyone’s had some time to emotionally process the emotional fallout from that depressing night, needs more attention.
By Eve Mykytyn | December 15, 2019 During the run up to the recent election in Great Britain, Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party were accused, with almost unprecedented hysteria, of anti Semitism. Mr. Corbyn is not anti Semitic, he has been a lifelong anti-racist advocate. Perhaps the histrionics in the press and pulpits were […]
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Henrik and Lana cover the latest stories and important events of the week, in episode 56 of Flashback Friday.
