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Liz Webster: The far right claiming that...

The far right claiming that “the whole of Europe is moving right” is not quite the scare tactic they think it is. If true, it demolishes their own case that the EU is some alien left-wing superstate from which Britain must remain isolated. And when Sweden votes left, they claim the votes of Swedish citizens with immigrant backgrounds somehow count less. Every citizen’s vote carries equal weight. That is democracy. Discounting people’s votes because of their ancestry is ethnic nationalism.

Andrew Bridgen: Far from ending the conflict...

Far from ending the conflict in the Middle East is escalating again with President Trump considering strikes against the Houthis in Yemen after their attack on Riyadh where a ballistic missile was fired at the capital of Saudi Arabia. Events caused President Trump to returned early to the White House from Camp David, cancelling all of scheduled meetings and events US embassies across the Middle East — Israel, Iraq, Oman, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, and Bahrain — issued security alerts. The Houthi’s have attacked Jeddah, Yanbu, Abha, Jazan, and the East-West pipeline, effectively preventing Saudi Arabia from exporting oil via the Red Sea as an alternative to the blockaded Strait of Hormuz. The world wide energy crisis is only deepening as if it was all planned out in advance.
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