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Mon, 20/02/2023 - 09:35

By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost I love Wang Yi’s response when The New York Times’s Michael Crowley caught him in a hallway at the Munich Security Conference Saturday and asked the Chinese foreign minister if he planned to meet Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines.  “He simply chuckled,” Crowley wrote of […]

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Mon, 20/02/2023 - 03:32
This is a Skwawkbox edit of a guest post submitted by a Labour figure who asked to remain anonymous. Asked by journalists last week whether he would proscribe – outlaw – Momentum, Keir Starmer responded equivocally: That one is not for me. Of course, that is neither a denial nor an indicator that it’s not […]
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Sun, 19/02/2023 - 22:31
Contempt for party staff laid bare as party reveals it abused left-wing organisers in ‘constructive dismissal’ while saying their positions were no longer needed The Labour party is recruiting twenty regional organisers on the parliamentary jobs website, saying they are needed: at the forefront of the next General Election campaign, supporting constituency parties and regional […]
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Sat, 18/02/2023 - 10:35
Labour MP and councillor deny claims they were pair named in Kennedy Report Union figures have alleged that Ilford North MP Sam Tarry and Croydon Councillor Chris Clark are the pair of TSSA employees criticised by Baroness Kennedy’s scathing report on sexual harassment in the union. Page thirteen of the report describes a conversation in […]
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Fri, 17/02/2023 - 05:01
Scandalously little challenge from BBC to bigotry of Labour right – but at least presenter asked the question Right-wing horror Ruth Smeeth exposed the reality of the arrogance and bigotry of her faction when she boasted today on BBC News that left-wing Jews, who support the human rights of Palestinians and do not support Israeli […]
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Thu, 16/02/2023 - 21:59

By DemocracyNow! When the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany were damaged last September, U.S. officials were quick to suggest Russia had bombed its own pipelines. But according to a new report by the legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, it was the U.S. Navy that carried out the sabotage, with help […]

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Thu, 16/02/2023 - 21:27
Any commitment to do so would be to gift Stalin Starmer an excuse to expel him altogether Clamour is – understandably – growing for former Labour leader Jeremey Corbyn to announce he will stand as an independent in his Islington North seat, after his cowardly successor confirmed what everyone knew: that despite the (sham) EHRC’s […]