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GCHQ—when workers stood up and the union leaders ran away

Forty years ago the TUC union federation called strikes against union bans at GCHQ. Simon Basketter looks at the lessons from 1984

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Starmer s message to corporate lobbyists: Labour s door is open

Starmer vowed to end revolving doors between government and the companies they regulate. But Starmer is in thrall to corporate lobbyists

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How the state uses inquiries to deflect anger

That was how then prime minister John Major explained to a 1995 inquiry that his government had encouraged the flogging

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Shane MacGowan, 1957-2023

Shane MacGowan, the brilliant chaotic songwriter and singer of The Pogues, died last week.

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Radical BBC? Doctor Who knows best

Tory magazine The Spectator declared, “The issue with Doctor Who is the tendency to moralise and lecture about peace, love and brotherhood.”

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