Top posts of 2019
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You've all been waiting for this. I do it every year. My top read posts of the year.
1. THE RCP'S LONG MARCH FROM ANTI-IMPERIALIST OUTSIDERS TO THE DOORS OF DOWNING STREET
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On how a bizarre Trotskyist sect took over the Conservative and Brexit parties. Also cross-posted at Bella Caledonia. Go here for the sequel, with the web of thinktanks and astroturf campaigns they've incubated to drive the Brexit agenda.
2. WHAT'S WRONG WITH CHRIS WILLIAMSON?
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Eighteen reasons Chris Williamson is a horrible human being (and most of them have nothing to do with antisemitism).
3. WHY HORSESHOE THEORY IS NONSENSE
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I really need to add to this post, as some of the points were under-developed, but I felt it needed to be said.
4. A VOTE FOR THE CONSERVATIVES IS NOT A VOTE AGAINST ANTISEMITISM
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On why Boris Johnson's Tories are really, really bad for the Jews (as well as everybody else).
5. MAX BLUMENTHAL, STOP THE WAR AND JENNY TONGE
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On three of contemporary politics' forces for ill (and specifically for promoting the convergence of far right and left/liberal positions and for antisemitism to enter our movements.)
6. TERRY BURKE: 'RUSSIAGATE', SYRIA AND THE LEFT
A guest post I was proud to publish on Trumpism and its "left" variants.
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