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Steven Carruthers

‘We Deserve Better’: the way forward?

This is a very interesting development and, for me, one that’s long overdue. Jones actually hits on why it is so difficult for left-wingers…

8 min readApr 1, 2024

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‘We Deserve Better’: the way forward?

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Steven Carruthers

Proportional Representation Voting Is MUCH More Likely To Come From The Conservatives

Now that I’ve got your attention, let’s break it down and see if I have an argument here or, like all those MPs psychotically acting like…

14 min readMar 19, 2024

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Proportional Representation Voting Is MUCH More Likely To Come From The Conservatives

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Steven Carruthers

Giving Them, and Yourself, The Red Card

We’re in the run up to one of, I think, the most wryly amusing periods of politics: when highly-paid figures, who want to preserve and/or…

16 min readFeb 13, 2024

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Giving Them, and Yourself, The Red Card

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Steven Carruthers

‘Progressive’ is a Problem

When you’re trying to express or examine an idea, you want your terms defined and moored so that you’re not talking at cross purposes but…

11 min readMar 20, 2023

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‘Progressive’ is a Problem

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Steven Carruthers

Political Bear Trap or Golden Opportunity?

Reform has form. The Nigel Farage/Richard Tice entity, Reform UK, is evidently coming to run the Conservatives up a tree again. As they…

8 min readFeb 17, 2023

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Political Bear Trap or Golden Opportunity?

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Steven Carruthers

US Leftists Should Study British Right-Wing Populist Nigel Farage

I like Krystal Ball a lot (yes: her real name). She’s been one of the most articulate, entertaining and combative US left-wing voices over…

12 min readFeb 7, 2023

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US Leftists Should Study British Right-Wing Populist Nigel Farage

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Steven Carruthers

Brothers In Arms: One: The Conservative & Unionist Party and the Scottish National Party

Eh? Aren’t they diametrically opposed to each other? Kind of. Yes. However, it all starts to became decipherable when one accepts that the…

11 min readJun 28, 2022

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Brothers In Arms: One: The Conservative & Unionist Party and the Scottish National Party

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Steven Carruthers

Perhaps The Actual Reason Why The Knives Are Out For Starmer…

There’s a story about 36th US president, Lyndon Johnson, that’s possibly apocryphal but nonetheless was often one that Hunter S. Thompson…

18 min readMay 23, 2022

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Perhaps The Actual Reason Why The Knives Are Out For Starmer…

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Steven Carruthers

Remember Paul Merton’s Riposte

I was out hiking earlier and rather than just enjoying the nature and the country lanes, as I too often do at the moment, I scrolled…

3 min readMay 23, 2022

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Remember Paul Merton’s Riposte

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Steven Carruthers

Should The Liberal Democrats Finally Be Forgiven?

Ducks a hail of rotten fruit and bottles

17 min readMar 20, 2022

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Should The Liberal Democrats Finally Be Forgiven?

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Steven Carruthers

Steven Carruthers

Looking at the ins and outs of parties working together to eject the Conservatives and stop Britain becoming a perpetual one-party state

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