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Labour's Poll Surge Has Establishment 'Pundits' in a Flap

Labour's Poll Surge Has Establishment 'Pundits' in a Flap

 

Neil Clark

This was the general election the outcome of which was supposed to have been beyond doubt. When Prime Minister Theresa May announced on April 18 that she was going to the country for a new mandate, three years ahead of schedule, opinion polls put the Tories around 20 points ahead.

The "strong and stable" Mrs. May was going to wipe the floor with Labour and their "useless" "hard-left" leader Jeremy Corbyn — so the dominant Establishment-friendly narrative went.

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NATO's Commitments: What About Promises to Russia?

NATO's Commitments: What About Promises to Russia?

 

Dmitry Babich

The last few days have seen so many events connected to NATO and the leaders of the alliance’s member countries, that one can easily get confused.

NATO’s summit in Brussels on May 25, a session of NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly on May 29 in Tbilisi (Georgia), and then also the G7’s summit in Sicily, with just about all the same NATO-related faces dominating the television screens. Some observers even suspected that the diversity of geography was meant to camouflage the dearth of ideas.

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