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Christabel Cooper Articles

Hard Brexit is not in the Labour interest

Labour does not need to support a hard Brexit in order to recast itself as a nation-building party, argues Christabel Cooper. This article is part of The Labour Interest series. Anyone seeking an explanation for Britain’s vote to leave the European Union without...
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Defending diversity

If there is any philosophy underpinning Donald Trump’s assorted ramblings, it is the idea imported from his ultra-capitalist approach to business, that life is a zero-sum game; that you can only prosper if someone else is diminished. One of the messages that seems to...
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In defence of pollsters

Social liberals and anyone on the progressive side of politics were not the only people to have a terrible night on Tuesday 8 November. The polling industry again found itself under fire as Donald Trump defied their predictions and defeated Hillary Clinton to become...
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Parking trouble

Many Labour supporters found Theresa May’s keynote speech to the Tory conference disheartening for (at least) two reasons. The speech signalled a worrying lurch towards hard Brexit, but it also contained the ominous rumbling sound of tanks lining up to park themselves...
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