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The problem as ever isn't the standards the left has to meet - it's how low the bar is for the right. Jeremy Corbyn has had a tricky encounter with Emma Barnett on Women’s Hour, in which the Labour leader was unable to remember the cost of his flagship childcare policy – for 30 hours of childcare to be made available for free regardless of parental income, benefiting 1.3 million families. The interview is great radio – you can read the transcript here but it’s better heard than read – but is it a good way to cover politics? My colleague Helen doesn’t think so, and nor does Matt Zarb-Cousin, formerly of the leader’s office, now turned pro-Corbyn commentator. They think that by asking these questions, they are turning elections into a test of memory, not an arena where the strength of the parties’ programmes are judged. Are they right? Well, sort of. As Zarb-Cousin points out, we already know that every spending commitment in Labour’s manifesto has

globinfo freexchange A recent survey by YouGov shows that the British youth overwhelmingly chooses to vote for the Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn against the Conservative party under Theresa May. Perhaps the most interesting feature here is that the power of the Conservatives grows linearly with the age of the voters, which shows the gap between younger generations and the older ones. The younger would like to see Corbyn's socialist policies implemented, to drive UK forward against neoconservatism and neoliberalism. On the contrary, the older remain conservative and unwilling to see real changes. This is clearly depicted: Age 18-24 25-49 50-64 65+ Conservative 22 31 45 67 Labour 59 48 32 19 We see a similar picture here with the primary elections of the Democrats in the US, where the American youth supported massively Bernie Sanders and managed to bo

Σημαντικό προβάδισμα στους νέους ψηφοφόρους έχει ο ηγέτης του Εργατικού Κόμματος Τζέρεμι Κόρμπιν, σύμφωνα με έρευνα της εταιρείας δημοσκοπήσεων YouGov ενόψει των εκλογών στη Βρετανία. Ειδικότερα το Εργατικό Κόμμα, στους ψηφοφόρους κάτω των 25 ετών, προηγείται με 57 μονάδες. Στο σύνολο των ψηφοφόρων, η Τερέζα Μέι διατηρεί το υψηλό προβάδισμά της, αν και ο Τζέρεμι Κόρμπιν, σύμφωνα με τις δημοσκοπήσεις, φέρεται να μειώνει τη διαφορά. Σύμφωνα με τη δημοσκόπηση της εταιρείας ORB, η απόσταση που χωρίζει τους Συντηρητικούς από το αντιπολιτεύομενο Εργατικό Κόμμα μειώθηκε στις 6 μονάδες, από 12 που ήταν την περασμένη εβδομάδα. Η δημοσκόπηση αυτή δίνει ποσοστά 44% στο Συντηρητικό κόμμα, 38% στους Εργατικούς, 7% στους Φιλελεύθερους Δημοκράτες και 4% στο ξενοφοβικό UKIP. Μείωση της διαφοράς, αλλά στις 10 μονάδες (από 13 που ήταν στις 16 Μαΐου) δείχνει και η δημοσκόπηση του ινστιτούτου Opinium για λογαριασμό της εφημερίδας Observer. Σύμφωνα με αυτήν, οι Συντηρητικοί συ

globinfo freexchange Political heat rose for one more time in Greece on the occasion of the recent bomb-attack against the former Greek PM Lucas Papademos. The political opposition, mainly through the neoliberal right party, New Democracy, attacked the current government, and mainly SYRIZA, for its stance to criticize Papademos administration as being a non-elected government, imposed by Greece's creditors from November 2011 to May 2012. Such political attacks have become a routine case from the side of the old political establishment (mainly the Right New Democracy and the Social-Democrats PASOK), constantly accusing SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) that encourages terrorism. This time, however, the neoliberal establishment in Greece went one step further. In one of the biggest TV channels which belongs to a top Greek oligarch, some neoliberal pundits called for censorship against Facebook and Twitter users who expressed negative views a

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has had the audacity to utter the unthinkable. In his first campaign speech since the terrorist attack on Manchester Arena, he dared to link Britain’s involvement in foreign wars to terrorism on British soil. During the 15-minute speech on how Labour would deliver on domestic security in the UK, Corbyn said: “ Many experts, including professionals in our intelligence and security services have pointed to the connections between wars our government has supported or fought in other countries, such as Libya, and terrorism here at home. ” It’s no surprise that Corbyn was immediately accused by his critics of politicizing the Manchester attack by drawing a link between terrorism and foreign policy. But the response from Prime Minister Theresa May was perhaps the most sickening and disingenuous of all. Speaking on the sidelines of the G7 in Taormina, May unashamedly twisted Corbyn’s words and lied blatantly: “ Jeremy Corbyn has s