Salman Shaheen speaks to Ken Loach about the director’s hopes for founding a new party to the left of Labour, and what it can learn from new media and the social movements that have built up around it. Ken Loach has just returned from Ireland where he has been shooting Jimmy’s Hall, a film following […]
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When Russell Brand called for revolution last month it struck a chord with hundreds of thousands of British people. Not simply because a long-haired dandy known for his tight leather trousers and desire to defile the granddaughter of Manuel from Fawlty Towers surprised us with his eloquence and political passion to trounce a tired Jeremy
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On my way to work on Monday I was curious to see a small group of anti-fracking protesters superglued to the entrance of Bell Pottinger, the PR firm used by energy company Cuadrilla. The irony is, better PR is exactly what anti-fracking activists need. The protesters had brought with them signs bearing the slogan “fracking
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Except he doesn’t. This is just another pointless and misleading headline in today’s Metro. Another nothing story to squeeze a little bit more moral panic juice out of the upsurge in anti-Muslim sentiment. Under the headline “Extremist preacher faces arrest”, the Metro goes on to report that “Muslim preacher Anjem Choudary will be arrested as
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In the wake of the Natalija Belova scandal, in which the Sun fell flat on its face trying to whip up a campaign of hatred against Lithuanian immigrants when it turned out the woman they were showcasing as a benefit scrounger was in fact an actor and model, I was asked to appear on Lithuanian
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