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BIRD’S WORDS

There’s no debate – the cult of personality serves no purpose

How impolite do things have to get before we can get to the so-called truth? I watched the Starmer/ Sunak debate last week and realised that it was fraught from the start. You can’t ask two professional politicians who are seriously ambitious about the next election to debate coolly, when among the audience are many who have been injured by the political and economic processes of the last dozen years or more.

That adversarial kind of TV is a joke anyway, an extension of the

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