Don't let the BNP break through Oct 13 2008: Mike Ion: The far right is in position to prosper if Labour fails to address its traditional supporters' grievances about the credit crunch…
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Mike Ion: If Labour fails to address voters' concerns the BNP could prosper
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Mike Ion: Election success for Labour depends on its message to the marginals
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/09/labour.conservativesHope at the margins Oct 9 2008: Mike Ion: Labour's election chances rely on taking a clear message to the marginals targeted by the Tories…
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Mike Ion: It's time to make the super-rich pay more
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/20/labourconference.taxandspending?gusrc=rss&feed=globalMike Ion: Tolerance of the City's excesses is disappearing. Gordon Brown should seize his opportunity and make the super-wealthy pay more…
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Fertile ground for fascists?
http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/?p=279written a piece
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Voting out the far-right
http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/05/29/voting-out-the-f...thinks
224 days ago in Liberal Conspiracy | creating a new liberal-left alliance by libconspiracy · Authority: 300 -
The right and our electoral system
http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbli...Mike Ion thinks the Labour leadership should do more to combat the rise of the BNP: Gordon Brown would send out a powerful message to his party's core supporters if he were to personally throw his weight behind a call for a new "coalition of the willing" that will help
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Commentariat: Summarising the Comment from the Glass Bubble
http://www.commentariat.org.ukIt’s never going to end… Keep the cap Patricia Hewitt and the mystery of the tattoo questions The great meter rip-off The great meter rip-off Expenses, allowances… and now pensions The politics of doughnuts Have some faith Have some faith Engaging India: Delhi dithers as big retail rattles the gates Keep on the sunny side Blinkered bishop Violence as 7,000 blockade coke site Once and future president
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On voting systems and the far-right
http://drinksoakedtrotsforwar.com/2008/05/28/on-voting-syste...Mike Ion’s
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On voting systems and the far-right
http://modies.blogspot.com/2008/05/on-voting-systems-and-far...Mike Ion's
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To the right…
http://anothercatastrophe.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/to-the-ri...Daily Mail appeasing, authoritarian, technocracy and the rise of a reinvigorated Tory party it looks to me like the UK is heading ever rightwards. Indeed in some places it looks like the country is heading even further to the right, with places such as Stoke-On-Trent
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[Blogs] School admissions - we need to admit to our mistakes
http://www.recycledart.org/content/blogs-school-admissions-w...The piece below is also to be found on the Guardian's Comment is Free blogJonathan Freedland is right to argue that the new-found boldness of schools' secretary Ed Balls on the issue of admissions must be only the start. This year alone the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) has uncovered

