Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
We’ve finally escaped from the rubber room of rage
Trump and his criminal cronies contaminated us – his departure brings relief, says LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MY Twitter feed was full of them. So was my Facebook timeline. My cell phone’s camera roll filled up as they flowed there by default from WhatsApp.
And even as Joe Biden was being sworn in on Wednesday as the 46th president of the United States, my brother-in-law fed me an unrelenting stream on text message.
They were the Trump memes. And now, suddenly, they are gone. And it’s such a relief.
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