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Learning from Labour

Since the recent round of local elections in the UK, the Labour Party has been subject to a bout of rancorous soul-searching and hand-wringing over how to make up lost electoral ground.   Steve Latham   What is the remedy for the loss of support, even among traditional Labour voters, […]

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Religion’s malevolence

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) that currently heads the coalition Assembly in Northern Ireland was formed by Ian Paisley, a Protestant evangelical minister.   Sean Sheehan   Although he honed a brand of hate speech directed at Catholics (‘they breed like rabbits and multiply like vermin’) and the papacy (‘I […]