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The UK spends £40 billion a year defending itself against invented threats, while massively neglecting real ones. My column this week calls for a complete shift in our security priorities.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Covid19, like climate breakdown, tells us that this needs to be the age of international cooperation.
I also highlight the shocking, ignorant and extremely dangerous attitudes of the UK Defence Secretary, @BWallaceMP.
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As more revelations emerge from the leaked Labour report and its surrounding scandals, we see that the sabotage of Labour's election campaign by some people in Labour HQ was deliberate, systematic and relentless. No party could have won in these circumstances.
Those Labour officials who undermined Corbyn's campaign helped Boris Johnson to win a huge majority. I wonder how they sleep.
(I deleted and rewrote my previous comments, as they were linked to an article from 2018. My apologies - I failed to spot the date).
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Freedom to roam is a right as fundamental as freedom of speech. When the lockdown ends, let's claim it.
My column.
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The history of exclusion in the UK is fascinating, horrific and scarcely known to most people. I mention a few examples of the outrageous theft of our rights, some of which continue to this day.
We have a long-standing myth in the UK that the countryside is a place of innocence and freedom. But in some ways it is far more exclusive and cruel than the cities, and has been for centuries.
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Let's not bail out the airlines.
Let's not bail out the oil companies.
Let's emerge from the pandemic into a new, green economy.
To bail out the airlines in response to the pandemic is to address one catastrophe by promoting an even bigger one.
And instead of Richard Branson offering his private island as collateral for a government bailout, why doesn't he sell the island and use his own assets to support his own companies?
He wants to remain as rich as Croesus, while the government saves his business.
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