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Kier Starmer campaigns on Seaton Carew, Co Durham, on 1 May. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images Kier Starmer campaigns on Seaton Carew, Co Durham, on 1 May. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images Mon 3 May 2021 10.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 3 May 2021 11.55 EDT In the wake of Labour’s terrible, soul-destroying election defeat in 2019, the need to “listen” to the red wall constituency voters who had deserted the party became an instant truism. In the trauma of the moment, there...

An incarnation of chiaroscuro   ( blue (Austral. sl. ) argument, row) We rented behind a block of corner shops, rooms like gloomy cells one side of a narrow hallway abutting the next shop, parking space, entry, from a back lane. Beyond our kitchen’s locked door our landlord the butcher weighed chops, sausages, sexual innuendo, for women eking out housekeeping days. We heard cleaver thuds, saucy laughter. That summer we argued again, as the poor who toil for the dishonest do, heat, need, itch...

Party leaders want to capitalize on Donald Trump’s appeal to the white working class. But in recent weeks, they’ve offered very little to advance working people’s economic interests.

WE ARE HONORED to present to you the very first Massachusetts Review issue focused on Native American writing. We are thankful to Associate Editor N. C. Christopher Couch and the rest of the MR team for dreaming up this issue and for asking us to be guest editors, and we are especially thankful to the writers and artists whose work we’ve chosen for this special issue. Their words and images are a gift. This issue, as it was first imagined, was set to coincide with and push back against Massa...

Her. donald trump, america first policy, they could relate to. he was patriotic and he was funny.uld re he was someone who they believed could make america great again and thats pretty simple. >> it should be but why is itmp? that everybody else apparently doesnt understand it. jesse: because they didnt watch "watters world". >> because if you look at blacks and hispanics, many suffer from the same kind of economic problems that the white working class are and their life expectancy is going up, ...