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How Our Economic Sovereignty Is Lost to Corporations
RABBIL SIKDAR They are ruining our jobs, ruining our wages, ruining our public services and ruining our council homes but they are not the European Union and they are not immigrants either. They’re...
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Sheffield Doc/Fest 2015: Best of Enemies/the Russian Woodpecker
DANIEL PALMER Now in its twenty-second year, Sheffield’s documentary festival always offers up an impressive slate of political content: noteworthy entries this year were The Black Panthers: Vanguard...
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Osborne’s Budget Plan Is a Deceitful Trick
RABBIL SIKDAR “If a rich man wants to help the poor he should pay his taxes gladly and not doll them out on a whim.” Those were the wise words of Clement Attlee who envisioned a society that was...
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Time for Labour to Confront the Alternatives
RABBIL SIKDAR “Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.” Tony Benn like many on the left believed that social change came from social movements, the organisation...
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Corbyn Is Close to Victory and His Opponents Cannot Stop Him
RABBIL SIKDAR Jeremy Corbyn had only one obstacle to really hurdle past and it was the one he scraped through at the last minute: the parliamentary nominations. For those who chose him, there was a...
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Film Review: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
DANIEL PALMER A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) Director: Roy Andersson Writer: Roy Andersson Starring: Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom, Viktor Gyllenberg 101 mins Like many of...
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An Unseen Death
BEN MORRIS The news that Riham Dawabsha had succumbed to her injuries in hospital two nights ago was not greeted with the type of nauseating moral outrage (Dacre, Murdoch, Desmond etc.) that was...
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Film Review: The Wolfpack (2015)
DANIEL PALMER The Wolfpack (2015) Director: Crystal Moselle Starring: Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo 90 mins When nothing tangible carries value, information is capital. On a daily...
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Patriotism Should Not Mean Love for All the Bad Things in Britain
RABBIL SIKDAR “Do you love this country?” It’s a question frequently put to those espousing left-wing ideals. Alan Rusbridger was asked it by Keith Vaz when The Guardian was accused for undermining...
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Film Review: 45 Years (2015)
DANIEL PALMER 45 Years (2015) Director: Andrew Haigh Writers: David Constantine (short story), Andrew Haigh (adaptation) Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Dolly Wells, Tom Courtenay 95 mins Andrew Haigh’s...
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Autumn Statement: Osborne Fiddles While Rome Burns
LEON ZADOK The public see Britain’s prosperity, less through the prism of a growing economy, and more through their collective experiences, their own circumstances. The latter will likely define...
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Cameron’s Tough Week Has a Long History
Two brief observations on the offshore tax stuff: (1) Essentially, we have witnessed one of those occasional paradigm shifts where something that was previously tacitly accepted is now questioned....
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Review: Elena Ferrante – the Neapolitan Novels
I: My Brilliant Friend II: The Story of a New Name III: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay IV: The Story of the Lost Child The weekend before my flight to Naples, I languished in Waterstones for an...
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Election Myths #1: “No one should have to pay 50% of their income in tax.”
SANJOY BANERJEE UK income tax is assessed by dividing your income into chunks and you are taxed at a different rate on each chunk. So currently, the top rate of tax is 45% for those earning above...
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Election Myths #2: “Spending cuts are an unfortunate necessity to balance the...
SANJOY BANERJEE It is good to see Jamie Oliver has waded into the debate about Conservative election plan to end spending on free school meals for infants in the first three years of primary school. I...
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Election Myths #3: “I’ve never voted Conservative before, but I believe in...
SANJOY BANERJEE You can pore over policies and manifestos as much as you like, yet the decision which candidate to place your cross next to is usually a matter of gut instinct, folklore and...
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Election Myths #4: “Jeremy Corbyn is a terrorist sympathiser.”
SANJOY BANERJEE This is Tony Benn talking about the second Iraq War in 2003. I thought it was worth sharing because in the week since the MEN terrorist attack, coalition air strikes have killed 106...
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How We Decided The Kind of Country We Wanted to Live In
SANJOY BANERJEE When Theresa May gave her Lancaster House address in January, outlining the objectives the UK would pursue during our Brexit negotiations, she suggested that we should “[take] the...
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A Simon Cowell Charity Single Is Not What the Victims of Grenfell Tower Need
Rozan Ahmed is a writer, editor and cultural commentator who lost friends and family in Grenfell Tower fire. As Simon Cowell releases a charity single cover version of Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge...
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マジカルシェリーは腰痛対策にも使える？注意すべきポイントを解説！
【マジカルシェリー】 骨盤の歪みは腰痛の原因ともなります。 ということは、マジカルシェリーには骨盤ケア効果があるから、腰痛対策に使えると思いますよね。 でも、本来の目的と違った使い方になりますので要注意！ 逆に悪化しないか心配でもあります。 そこで気になる疑問を調査してみました。 腰痛の原因が重要 マジカルシェリーを腰痛対策に使う前に、必ず知っておかなくてはならない重要なポイントがあります。...
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