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Imprisoned hunger striker linked to Palestine Action tells friend: ‘I’m dying’

Prof Peter Hallward, of Kingston University, one of dozens of academic signatories of the statement, said: “The UK is now perilously close to full descent into authoritarian rule. Ministers won’t even meet with hunger strikers who are now at death’s door. [They] seem perfectly ready to let this country’s most committed and courageous opponents of an ongoing genocide waste away and die.”

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Andy Burnham signals a wealth tax is off the agenda for now

Asked about wealth taxes on Wednesday, Burnham told the footballer turned podcaster Gary Lineker: “I don’t want to come in and sort of, if you like, create new divisions and pitch people one against another.”

Just keep the old divisions of pitching people against each other

He added: “I do believe we need a greater sense of fairness and people feeling that things are being done in the right way and a fair way.

People want actual fairness but not just a sense of it

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Zack Polanski offering voters fantasy solutions, says head of Fabian Society

He adds: “The idea that squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything that we want and everything that we need is fantasy and we do need to expose that.”

The fact that we have a society with billionaires while millions are living in poverty means simply that the policies of the last 50+ years have failed our society.

Anyone defending billionaires is part of the problem and not looking for real solutions