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Edited 12.35 to include news of Scottish Green Party defections to Your Party. The results of yesterday’s by-election in Wales and the recent clarity from Scotland send a powerful, unifying message: the only credible way to defeat the far-right is through a confident, mobilised progressive movement. This isn’t just about tactical voting; it’s about political […]
On 28 August, the Prime Minister (PM) of the UK Boris Johnson dropped a bombshell. As reported by the BBC, Johnson has asked the Queen to suspend Parliament “just days” after MPs return to work from the summer recess. The plan comes only several weeks before the Brexit deadline of 31 October. But this prorogation of […]
The UK is broken, and I can’t see how it can ever be fixed. Like Humpty Dumpty, all the constitutional monarch’s horses and all the constitutional monarch’s men can’t put it together again (other animals and sexes are also available) (as are other governing systems, if not actually right here, right now…) Even if, by […]