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Who funds the Brexit Party?
The cash-cabal also backs unsavoury endeavours like the Taxpayers’ Alliance and even alt-right Turning Point UK, discovers SOLOMON HUGHES
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
THE latest figures are out from the Electoral Commission. They show the Brexit Party got about £1 million after its launch, from tycoons who are former Tory donors, right-wing millionaires with offshore interests and anti-union bosses.
Although it was only founded this year, it needs a lot of cash if it is really going to field candidates in every constituency in the forthcoming election.
Luckily for them, the money is coming forth, because a lot of rich folk like the Brexit Party.
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