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A group of 22 Tory bigwigs are making a noise about ‘liberals rewriting our history in their image’ and blaming ‘cultural Marxism.’ BEN COWLES takes a look
Sir John Hayes (left) and 22 other Tory MPs and lords wrote a letter in The Telegraph last week spreading the ‘cultural Marxism’ conspiracy theory, which echoes many of the same ideas as Joseph Goebbels (right, centre) and the Nazi's Cultural Bolshevism conspiracy theory
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
A GROUP of 22 Tory MPs and lords, describing themselves as the Common Sense Group, took to the letters pages of The Telegraph last week to rail against “powerful, privileged liberals rewriting our history in their image.”
How dare the snowflakes at the National Trust “implicitly tarnish one of Britain’s greatest sons,” Winston “gas-the-natives” Churchill, “by linking his family home with slavery and colonialism,” the 22 wrote in the billionaire Barclay brothers’ newspaper.
How could the social justice warriors at the National Maritime Museum cave into the PC brigade by promising to provide “multiple perspectives on history,” the letter cries, before going on to praise the “chairman [sic] of the Charity Commission, Baroness Stowell,” for reminding charities to stay out of politics.
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