The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
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The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
“ANY sign of danger, and I’ll stroll by whistling the Lambeth Walk.”
There’s still time to catch Hue and Cry, possibly my favourite Ealing Comedy, on BBC iPlayer before it expires early tomorrow morning.
It’s a tale of working-class street kids who discover criminals are sending cryptic messages through children’s comic stories. Amid the ruins of post-war London, their initial scrapping and fisticuffs give way to a show of solidarity and collective discipline that would leave most revolutionaries envious.
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