Back to the 50s — Is Britain stuck in a time warp?

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BONUS: Is Zack Polanski sunk after Holborn & St Pancras?

Labour wins the Holborn & St Pancras handily – but the Greens had staked a lot on Zack Polanski winning and he failed. Is Polanski’s nightmare week over the Zionism vote a symptom of deeper weaknesses in his leadership? Is far-left entryism destroying the Greens? And why Labour’s ...  Show more

 . 27min 51sec
Remainiacs Assemble? – Can Burnham end the Brexit Era?

Has Burnham really broken Britain’s bizarre, self-enforced silence around the disaster that is Brexit? What would a real pro-EU membership stance from Labour mean for British politics? And would killing off Brexit inadvertently give a flagging Farage his mojo back? Plus, in the w ...  Show more

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