Patrick Cockburn
Columnist at The Independent
Writer at Freelance
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4 days ago |
inews.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn
Nigel Farage is not the first populist nationalist leader in UK politics to have a personality cult which he has used to create a powerful political party centered on himself. The late Rev Ian Paisley did so in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, operating in much the same way as Farage does today. He had a charismatic, self-confident personality and saw enemies of the people – in his case the Protestant people – all around, denouncing them in violent, headline-grabbing terms.
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1 week ago |
inews.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn
Sir Keir Starmer is becoming a liability to Labour in the same way Joe Biden was to the Democrats in the US presidential election last year. Voters elected both men hoping for a change for the better, but they are too well integrated into the ruling establishment to deliver. Biden was never articulate and this turned to incoherence under the impact of his advancing age.
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2 weeks ago |
inews.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn
On 12 October 1936, Miguel de Unamuno, the rector of Salamanca University and a philosopher, gave his last lecture three months after the start of the Spanish Civil War. Salamanca had been captured by the nationalists soon after the military coup against the democratically elected republican government, and Unamuno’s audience included the coup leader, General Francisco Franco’s adviser, General Millán Astray, a soldier notorious for his fascist beliefs.
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1 month ago |
inews.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn
Oh, the grand old Duke of Trump,He had 10,000 tariffs,He marched them up to the top of the hill,And he marched them down again. Trump says that he has merely “paused” his “beautiful” reciprocal tariffs, and in 90 days’ time, if he does not get what he wants, he will throw them back into battle once again to fight those who have supposedly been looting, pillaging, raping and plundering the US for decades.
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1 month ago |
lrb.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn
In the late morning of 30 April 1980, I left my flat at 90 Westbourne Terrace, near Paddington Station, to walk across Kensington Gardens to the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate. I wanted a visa to visit Iran, where the US raid to rescue staff held hostage in its embassy in Tehran had failed disastrously a few days earlier.
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