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GE2017, Politics

The Corbynista Excuse Handbook

BY BEN PENSANT If Jeremy Corbyn loses on June 8th, expect the Corbynistas to draw on these five typical Labour excuses: 1. Stupidity Should the British people reject both Jezza’s principled socialism and the middle-class movement to stop Brexit, much will be written about the role played by the chaotic ineptness of the opposition. Don’t believe a word of it. Because who but the most educationally subnormal bin-man would fail … Continue reading The Corbynista Excuse Handbook

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International, Social Commentary

Dan On Fire

  BY BEN PENSANT Of all the questions that I’m regularly asked by right-wing trolls – from ‘Do you know the difference between reported crimes and actual crimes?’ to ‘Why does a man who supports LGBT rights celebrate a regime that hangs gays?’ – by far the most frequent revolve around the divisive issue of free speech. Divisive, that is, to right-wing trolls; we regressives are characteristically clear on freedom of … Continue reading Dan On Fire

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Education

Working Class Liaison Officer

BY BEN PENSANT As both a northerner and a former student I know what it’s like to be the smartest person in the room and the only one to have been locked in the shed on his sixth birthday. While the first scenario would occur every time I returned home and listened to my Woodpecker-addled family’s inane chit-chat about buses, the latter memory would often … Continue reading Working Class Liaison Officer

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Politics

Fraser’s Edge

BY BEN PENSANT 2016 was officially the worst year EVER. That’s a fact – there’s been surveys and everything. Sure, there was a rise in life expectancy and a fall in world hunger; the discovery of gravitational waves and Juno’s exploration of Jupiter; ground-breaking advancements in eradicating HIV, cancer, malaria and measles. But it means nothing when you remember we left the EU, a bad man won an election and a load of famous … Continue reading Fraser’s Edge

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Opinion

Thoughts of a Leftie

BY BEN PENSANT A common misconception of the regressive left is that we hate anyone who disagrees with us. From smearing people who voted to leave the EU as bigoted morons to branding liberals like Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz ‘anti-Muslim extremists’, the accepted wisdom is that we refuse to tolerate opposing views, especially ones which expose our ideology as hypocritical horse-shit. However, as anyone … Continue reading Thoughts of a Leftie

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