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The elites hate Momentum and the Corbynites - and I’ll tell you why | David...

The movement that backed the Labour leader challenges MPs and journalists alike – because it’s about grassroots democracyAs the rolling catastrophe of what’s already being called the “chicken coup”...

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Theresa May recites Labour’s lines, but doesn’t mean a word of them | David...

It’s obvious the Tories have stolen Ukip’s platform – but the prime minister has also adopted Labour initiatives and slogans. She’s playing a clever gameEveryone already knows how much of Theresa May’s...

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I didn't understand how widespread rape was. Then the penny dropped | David...

I’m a lefty academic versed in feminist theory. Still, I rebelled against the idea that rich and powerful men regularly rape or attempt to rape womenThis is a very difficult column for me to write...

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Why are world leaders backing this brutal attack against Kurdish Afrin? |...

Islamist militants – with Turkish army support – are wreaking havoc with a pocket of peace and sanity in the Syrian warThree years ago the world watched a ragtag band of men and women fighters in the...

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‘I had to guard an empty room’: the rise of the pointless job

Copying and pasting emails. Inventing meaningless tasks for others. Just looking busy. Why do so many people feel their work is completely unnecessary?One day, the wall shelves in my office collapsed....

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Can the Tories reach young voters? – Politics Weekly podcast

Jessica Elgot is joined by Will Tanner, Katy Balls and Rebecca Lowe to discuss a raft of new Conservative thinktanks formulating plans to connect with young voters. Plus author David Graeber discusses...

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America's Kurdish allies risk being wiped out – by Nato | David Graeber

Turkey is seen as the Kurds’ mortal enemy but it uses German tanks and British helicopters: this is an international outrageRemember those plucky Kurdish forces who so heroically defended the Syrian...

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Unfreezing the ice age: the truth about humanity’s deep past

Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organised their societies – and hint at possibilities for our ownIn some ways, accounts of “human...

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Unfreezing the ice age: the truth about humanity’s deep past – podcast

Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organised their societies – and hint at possibilities for our own. By David Graeber and David...

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