- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Genuine
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the hyper-exploitative sector of retail and hospitality, workers are made to feel worthless - undeserving of a proper wage and genuine security.
- Drunk
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neoliberalism has left Britain's boss classes drunk on triumphalism, paying themselves record salaries and bonuses while their workers are imprisoned by poverty and insecurity. It was never going to last.
- Nov 07, 2020
A party committed to defending the economic interests of rich elites could never win by saying so.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism is the democratisation of every level of society, or it is nothing. It is based on an understanding that the concentration of wealth and power leaves democracy hollowed out, and that simply trooping to a polling station every few years is an insufficient counterweight to the behemoths of global capital.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest own goals in modern British political history helped create one of the biggest political parties in the western world, but one committed to socialism rather than rehashed Blairite triangulation.
- Labour
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- Nov 07, 2020
Labour's mission is to democratise Britain: but first, it must surely democratise itself.
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
For decades, life expectancy steadily rose in Britain: and then, suddenly, just as the Tories took power and imposed austerity, this improvement ground to a halt.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Austerity is literally a matter of life and death. Unless it is stopped, lives will continue to be unnecessarily shortened.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sneer can often reveal far more about the sneerer than the object of their derision.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you live in London, where politicians and media commentators spend most of their time, you are spoilt for transport choices - trains, an extensive underground network and a regular bus service.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've never lived outside London, and if you've always had a car, it's difficult to understand how dire bus services undermine your standard of living: from being able to get to work, meet friends in the pub, get the weekly shop or take the kids on a day out.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grief is like wandering through a minefield, as my mother puts it: however carefully you tread, a sudden detonation can happen out of nowhere. A song played in a supermarket; an overheard phrase; someone in the distance who your mind cruelly suggests is your loved one for a fleeting moment.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bereaved are often treated badly. There is no statutory paid bereavement leave, with the emotionally stunned often compelled to work within days of losing a loved one.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having some form of structure to process and manage grief collectively surely helps: as someone put it to me, grief is like a landscape without a map. Another suggested that grief makes you a stranger to yourself.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020