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McDonald’s ban looks like an opportunistic potshot
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McDonald’s ban looks like an opportunistic potshot

By Ellie Cumbo

What do Chris Grayling and Jeremy Corbyn have in common? From their politics to their popularity, right down to their facial hair choices, you’d think very little. So it’s as disorientating as it is disappointing that the Labour Party’s…

Should the media spend more time listening to party members?
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Should the media spend more time listening to party members?

By Ellie Cumbo

I ask because last week I found myself accidentally announcing the date of the official Labour Party campaign launch. I even told the Telegraph’s live politics blog that I’d be running the, ahem, how-many-sweets-in-a-jar contest (see…

The Telegraph have done a fundamental injustice to Naz Shah
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The Telegraph have done a fundamental injustice to Naz Shah

By Ellie Cumbo

I have never met Naz Shah, Labour’s new candidate for Bradford West, but we do have something in common. In 2009, I walked onto a stage with other members of women’s rights group OBJECT to collect the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize group…

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What Ken Clarke did get right

By Ellie Cumbo

By Ellie Cumbo / @EllieCumbo Of course all rape is serious. In any form, it offends against bodily integrity, sexual self-determination and the right to feel safe on the streets, in our relationships with others or even in our own homes…

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