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It’s the decade that gave us Britpop and Cool Britannia, but what can the 1990s tell us about who we are now? Over the first two weeks
At the European Social Forum on 15–17 October, AWL members leafleted, sold papers, ran literature stalls, and sought out people interested in political discussion. Where we could, we took the floor in sessions to put our point of view. That wasn’t always possible: many of the sessions, crowded and with large platforms, took only a small proportion of those wanting to speak from the floor.
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I’m no fan of Jimmy Carr, but the demands to cancel him by people like Sajid Javid are beyond the pale
An awkward encounter led me into a moral maze, with a holy trinity fighting over my Scotch dosh