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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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23 December, 2025

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Joe Lo
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He took a pre-emptive strike at Labour.

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Natalie Bennett
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Joe Lo
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Why not ask actual experts?

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Josiah Mortimer
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It’s a marked shift in rhetoric from the Corbyn era.

Independence to be debated ‘for the first time ever’ in the Welsh Parliament

Josiah Mortimer
15 July, 2020

“Support for Welsh independence is on the rise. The people of Wales are waking up to the idea that there is another way,” said Adam Price MS.

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Tony Burke
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Ed Davey
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We should give every parent 35 hours a week of free childcare.

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Joe Lo
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Johnson didn’t put that on the side of his Brexit bus.

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Joe Lo
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Reckless was accused of running the Brexit Party like a “dictator”.

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