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Liam McQuade
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Some thoughts comparing the Palestine Action and 1981 Irish hunger strikes

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Palestine Action and the Republican Hunger Strikers
The starting point for any commentary on the hunger strike now being conducted by six jailed members of Palestine Action (PA) has to be admiration for their physical a…
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November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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It’s striking that the campaign of lies over antisemitism that was so damaging to Corbyn hasn’t worked against the Greens.

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Antisemitism – the charge that doesn’t stick against the Greens
For a couple of years I was the commissar for political education in the local Labour Party. I saw the job as trying to show people that there was more to politics than bus routes (important as the…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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This is a new and dire development in the ongoing American constitutional crisis. The voters, Congress, and, yes, the U.S. military must all now be more vigilant than at any time in our modern history.

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The President Is Losing Control of Himself
Donald Trump’s outbursts on social media this week were different than usual.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Elon Musk has deliberately created a very powerful tool for the far right with Grokipedia. The entry on Tower Hamlets is neo-nazi propaganda.

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Elon Musk, AI, propaganda and Tower Hamlets
Most of what appears online about Tower Hamlets is malicious, ill-informed lying drivel. Elon Musk is set to make this a whole lot worse with the launch of his neo-Nazi version of an “encyclopaedia…
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November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Russell Crowe is superb in Nuremberg and the film has a very contemporary relevance in a world where racism is now mainstream politics.

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Nuremburg – Russell Crowe humanises Hermann Göring and makes him contemporary
Hermann Göring, as played brilliantly by Russell Crowe in this new telling of the Nuremburg trials, was devoted to his wife and children. Itamar Ben-Gvir, ICE agents in the United States, Tommy Rob…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Labour’s strategy for the 2026 elections in Tower Hamlets seems to be to prevent Lutfur Rahman standing as a candidate.

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Labour’s Tower Hamlets election strategy – if you can’t beat them, disbar them
No great insight was required for me to predict that the May 2026 council elections in Tower Hamlets would be carried out under the shadow of a process begun by Michael Gove and continued by Starme…
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November 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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It looks like Labour’s plan for avoiding electoral humiliation in Tower Hamlets is to stitch up Lutfur Rahman. I’m not his biggest fan but the stench of desperation is overwhelming.

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Steve Reed convenes Tower Hamlets envoys as concerns over council persist
Exclusive: Communities secretary calls meeting over two councillors seeking electoral candidacy in Bangladesh
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November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Some thoughts on Trespasses, the new @Channel4 series.

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Trespasses is Last Tango in Belfast, so it is
The Channel Four series Trespasses is based on a book by Louise Kennedy. It is a cautionary story in many ways. Young women in their early twenties watching it will conclude that you would need to …
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November 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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The new film version of L’étranger by François Ozon perhaps misses the point about Meursault.

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L’étranger – a new film dealing with Algeria, Asperger’s and the murder of an Arab
Robert Smith was so impressed by L’étranger, the 1942 novel by Albert Camus, that he wrote a song about it. You could get away with that sort of thing back then but it’s unlikely that a band would …
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November 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Some thoughts on a meeting of Greens Organise.

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An evening with Greens Organise – the happy, hopey vanguard
It is astonishing how two meetings in the same venue for the same ostensible purpose can be very different. A month ago I went along to a local meeting of Your Party which was not unpleasant but no…
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November 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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The recent trip by the DUP to Israel was about the international right showing its support for the eradication of the Palestinians.

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The DUP visit Israel to show that Palestinian lives don’t matter
Paul Givan is the education minister in the Belfast assembly, a sort of toy parliament which allows his Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin to allocate sectarian patronage to their respec…
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November 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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This piece from The Times on train conductors has aged well.
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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I’m not convinced that @zarahsultana is right to call Farage a fascist.

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Zarah Sultana and Michael Heseltine agree Farage is a fascist – they are probably wrong
“The bureaucracies that ruled the mass organizations of the working class were able to insulate the masses from an adequate theory of fascism and effective strategy and tactics for the struggle aga…
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November 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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If the Greens really were to replace Labour, this is what the early build-up might look.

Some thoughts for the @lrb.co.uk on the new left gathering around @zackpolanski.bsky.social, the contingent nature of green parties, and why this surge confounds commentators on left and right.
Michael Chessum | Green New Left
Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, says he wants to replace Labour. That still seems...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has decided to retain the name of a child rapist in his new designation.

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Louis Mountbatten – the royal Jimmy Savile
Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up: Chris Moore I had to set this book aside for a couple of days after reading the secon…
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October 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Tower Hamlets Greens on Aspire councillors seeking election in Bangladesh.

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Aspire Councillors must decide who they represent - Tower Hamlets Green Party
We need local representatives committed to their area who will fight 100% for their local residents.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Farage knows nothing about Tower Hamlets
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Farage knows nothing about Tower Hamlets - Tower Hamlets Green Party
1 / 1 One of the star turns at this year’s Reform conference was convicted criminal Lucy Connolly. She was sent to prison for encouraging people to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers. This can ...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Tower Hamlets Green Party reply to Farage slanders against the borough.

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Farage knows nothing about Tower Hamlets - Tower Hamlets Green Party
1 / 1 One of the star turns at this year’s Reform conference was convicted criminal Lucy Connolly. She was sent to prison for encouraging people to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers. This can ...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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I can sort of understand the sectarian, bureaucratic motives behind the hostility to the Greens, but it is self defeating.

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Greens and grudges
Broadly speaking, the general attitude on the British left towards the slightly surprising rise of the Greens has been positive. Everyone’s favourite student Leninist vanguard are open to discussio…
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October 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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The DUP reaction to the acquittal of Soldier F is a learning experience for the Kneecap generation.

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Soldier F and Unionism school the Kneecap generation
In some parts of Belfast local people fly the flag of the British Parachute Regiment, the colonel-in chief of which is Charles Windsor. Given that this state gang murdered eleven civilians in the c…
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October 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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UKIP were humiliated in Tower Hamlet but just because it is easy to ridicule them doesn’t mean you shouldn’t.

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A dispatch from the frontline of the Islamic Caliphate of Tower Hamlets
Sometimes you can’t help doing things that are stupid, wrong and bad for you, like having a couple of glasses of whiskey after getting back from the pub. Trying to find out a bit more about the new…
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October 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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A good result in Tower Hamlets.

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Greens and anti-racists – we humiliated UKIP but we still need you at Whitechapel on Saturday - Tower Hamlets Green Party
The people of Tower Hamlets have resoundingly humiliated the far right Islamophobes of UKIP. It had become obvious that this ragbag crew of racists and bigots were going to be massively outnumbered by...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Tower Hamlets Green Party is proud to have been part of the coalition of local community and political organisations which have prevented the provocative Islamophobic UKIP demonstration from happening in our borough.
Our unity defeated the far right.
They shall not pass!
October 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Paul Mason is likely to be remembered for the most complete political degeneration in the last fifty years of the British radical left.

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October 21, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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A statement from Tower Hamlets Green Party on UKIP and its planned Islamophobic stunt.

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All out to stop UKIP Islamophobes in Tower Hamlets! - Tower Hamlets Green Party
Tower Hamlets Green Party is calling on all our members and supporters across London to join this Saturday’s demonstration against UKIP’s Islamophobic stunt in Whitechapel.   We will be there with our...
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October 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM