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Genuine democracy is frequently messy, not stage-managed.
Everyone is entitled to change their mind when the facts do.
Brands are increasingly flirting with the realm of politics.
It is easier to diagnose a crisis than to cure it, of course.
Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.
A flourishing, diverse media is essential to a functioning democracy.
Britain's unions were broken and battered by Thatcherism and never recovered.
A flourishing higher education sector is critical to a nation's economy and culture.
The age of mass politics is one that demands radical solutions rather than tinkering.
A sneer can often reveal far more about the sneerer than the object of their derision.
University should foster imagination and creativity, enriching society in the process.
We need global tax justice, not charitable scraps dictated by the fancies of the elite.
Labour's mission is to democratise Britain: but first, it must surely democratise itself.
When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.
A party committed to defending the economic interests of rich elites could never win by saying so.
We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with.
The liberation of workers from excessive work was one of the pioneering demands of the labour movement.
In a society rigged in favour of landlords over tenants, to rent privately is to be deprived of security.
I am part of the left; I feel loyal. I don't want to do things that will be damaging to what I believe in.
Opposition to immigration is an emotional argument, and human beings are emotional, not robots powered by data.
Increased public ownership of the economy should be structured to create more worker self-management and control.
All I want for 2019 is for much-loved pop stars to stop being inadvertent propagandists for mass-murdering dictatorships.
Although economic grievances were critical in delivering the referendum result, Brexit has fomented an all-out culture war.
Austerity is literally a matter of life and death. Unless it is stopped, lives will continue to be unnecessarily shortened.
Philanthropists decide how to spend their money based on their own personal whims, rather than what is best for the social good.
Britain's police force is institutionally racist. This was the judgement of the 1999 Macpherson report, and it remains the case.
A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future.
The decision on how philanthropic money is spent is made on the whims and personal interests of the wealthy, rather than what is best.
The 'free market' is a creed that stirs up near religious devotion among its believers. It is in fact a con, a myth, a great deception.
Jobs have become more precarious and staff turnover has increased while union membership has plummeted, weakening workplace solidarity.
Political linguists have argued that the right often uses stories to make an argument, while the left falls back on facts and statistics.
It is a bad situation, the current state of the Labour leadership, a collective failure, the collapse of strategy and vision on all sides.
In the hyper-exploitative sector of retail and hospitality, workers are made to feel worthless - undeserving of a proper wage and genuine security.
When those with wealth and power fear that their privilege is even mildly challenged, they invariably clothe themselves in the garbs of victimhood.
Modern capitalism is based on a myth: that thriving private entrepreneurs generate wealth through their own hard work, innovation and get-up-and-go.
Political reporting is too often trivialised, treated as a soap opera based in Westminster, rather than placed in a broader social or economic context.
Turkey's regime is fast degenerating into outright dictatorship, emboldened by the imminent ascent of Donald Trump to the most powerful position on Earth.
We should all expect to be able to die with comfort, dignity and love. Our society does not lack the wealth to realise this aspiration, but the willpower.
Poverty damages the educational potential of children, whether through stress or poor diet, while overcrowded, poor-quality housing has the same impact too.
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.
We need to organise unapologetically anti-racist campaigns in our communities, ones that emphasise the fact that the blame for social ills lies with the powerful.
If only Brexit would go away. It sucks the political oxygen away from the issues we should all be discussing: like low wages, insecure jobs and the housing crisis.
Private schools do confer other advantages, of course: whether it be networks, or a sense of confidence that can shade into a poisonous sense of social superiority.
Tuition fees have formed part of a full-frontal assault on the living standards of a generation battered by a housing crisis, stagnating wages and slashed services.
The vast majority of people back higher taxes on the rich. Yet these are fringe ideas within most of the mainstream media, which marginalises those who support them.
If you are dim but have rich parents, a life of comfort, affluence and power is almost inevitable - while the bright but poor are systematically robbed of their potential.
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.
Nonbelievers may welcome the collapse in British religiosity, but the decline in church attendance has meant that the chance to chat each week with other people has vanished.
Almost all human beings have the capacity for empathy. Everyone has the potential to be at least troubled, or feel genuine anguish, about the suffering of other human beings.
But a rejection of freedom of movement within Europe's own boundaries does not strengthen the case for accepting more migrants and refugees from outside: the reverse, in fact.