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Frenemies with Benefits feat. Juliet Jacques

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The Green Lantern Theory of Politics

The new labor government was at home incredibly authoritarian, particularly after like September 2001. They were unambitious and very uninterested in using its majority to do anything other than entrench a version of Thatcher at consensus. Their political project relies on people forgetting what they're actually like. I mean, if you want the image of the start of the centrist restoration, it's the 2019 election when Ed Balls and George Osborne are sat next to each other at the table in the ICV studios. It is just maddening.

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