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Tag: Conservative Party

Posted inOpinion

Flag Shaggers: Why the Tories’ Use of the Union Jack is Damaging Democracy

by Finn Walshe April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

” If we are to learn anything from Václav Havel, it is that we should not simply dismiss the fetishisation of the Union Jack by Conservative politicians, and their attempts to force it down our throats, as a Tory quirk.”

Finn Walshe explores the consequences of the Conservative Party’s continuous use of the Union Jack.

Illustration by Ben Beechener

Posted inColumns

Disability Looks Like This: Make no mistake – conservative policies are inherently ableist

by Ellie Redpath May 29, 2021May 29, 2021
Posted inOpinion

Power without constraint – the UK’s paradoxical attack on protesting rights

by Jan Barraclough April 9, 2021April 9, 2021
Posted inOpinion

The Vision of the Anointed: On The Conservatives and their ‘sacred duty’ to balance the books

by Oliver White October 8, 2020July 18, 2021
Posted inOxford News

EXCLUSIVE: restless Conservative MPs tell Boris Johnson to reshuffle Cabinet amid talk of PM’s “shelf life”

by Oliver Shaw & Josh Reid September 17, 2020October 2, 2020

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