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Corbyn and the peace prize: Skwawkbox embarrasses the Left again

Labour MP Chris Williamson made an appearance on the Daily Politics show yesterday to vigorously defend the view that there…
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Posted on: 19th April 2021 Last updated on: 24th June 2021 Written by: bobpitt

Dorset Eye and conspiracies — how a leftwing website mistook satire for fact

If you spend much time on social media you can often come away with the impression that the entire left…
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Posted on: 12th April 2021 Last updated on: 12th April 2021 Written by: bobpitt

How did Boris Johnson get elected as mayor of London?

Writing in the Spectator, James Kirkup argues that, while Boris Johnson is today a Marmite figure whose hardline right-wing Brexiteer…
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Posted on: 7th April 2021 Last updated on: 7th April 2021 Written by: bobpitt

What happened to Adam Langleben?

Whatever happened to Adam Langleben? That’s the question I put to Stephane Savary, vice-chair of the misnamed Jewish Labour Movement,…
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Posted on: 7th April 2021 Last updated on: 10th June 2021 Written by: bobpitt

A tale of two cities — double standards over the ‘liberation’ of Aleppo and Mosul

Last year’s bloody destruction of eastern Aleppo by the Assad regime and its allies received massive media coverage in the…
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Posted on: 1st April 2021 Last updated on: 19th April 2021 Written by: bobpitt

Marcus Papadopoulos and the smearing of Jeremy Corbyn

Marcus Papadopoulos may not exactly be a household name, but last week he had his 15 minutes of fame when…
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Posted on: 31st March 2021 Last updated on: 24th May 2021 Written by: bobpitt

The Canary and conspiracies — the case of the Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack

To the outrage of the rightwing press, the panel of last Thursday’s edition of BBC Question Time included Kerry-Anne Mendoza,…
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Posted on: 30th March 2021 Last updated on: 19th April 2021 Written by: bobpitt

Marxism and popular fronts

This is an edited transcript of a talk given to the Communist University in London in August 2003. It was…
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Posted on: 29th March 2021 Last updated on: 29th March 2021 Written by: bobpitt

Destroying party democracy: The key to Blairism’s future

Recently a glossy new brochure from Millbank plopped through the letterboxes of Labour Party branch secretaries. Entitled 21st Century Party…
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Posted on: 28th March 2021 Last updated on: 5th April 2021 Written by: bobpitt

Brownshirts in blazers? The rise of UKIP

With its 16% of the vote in the June Euro-elections the UK Independence Party, previously dismissed as a group of…
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Posted on: 28th March 2021 Last updated on: 28th March 2021 Written by: bobpitt
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