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The political spectrum: how we imagine rainbows
Under lockdown during the bubonic plague of 1666, Isaac Newton ‘unwove’ the enduring political symbol for hope and peace. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL tell the story of the rainbow
Isaac Newton and a thank you note to Britain's key workers
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
DURING this crisis, people have been putting pictures of rainbows in the windows of their houses and online. Rainbows have an unrivalled dominance in the history of hope symbols.
They have been used all over the world in the service of a vast range of causes.
In modern life, not just for religious causes and LGBT liberation, the “PACE” (peace) flag against the Iraq war, the Wiphala flag of South American indigenous peoples (including Evo Morales supporters in Bolivia) are all rainbows.
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