Leonie Rushforth writes reviews and other articles for print and online journals. Her poetry is published in literary magazines, most recently in Prototype, and is anthologised in Oxford Poets; she has been a judge for the Costa and the Forward Prizes. She contributes podcasts for the Socialist Correspondent and is a Labour Party activist in Hackney.
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Published in: HomeSpeaking for ourselves
'You’re on mute! ' was actually a perturbing reminder of the ways in which we have all been silenced
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Knowing your place
Thinking of some lines of poetry by Derek Mahon.
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Published in: Home: OpinionOliver asks for more!
"In Dickens’s London, it was the cholera slums that killed thousands of working people in recurrent outbreaks and...
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Published in: HomeWe're not all in the same boat
"People are dying in the Mediterranean. It’s time to save them."
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Published in: HomeThe Clean Network
The US State Department’s new program The Clean Network, launched in August, offers a masterclass in propaganda.
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Published in: HomeUnalienable rights
"American trade imperatives, fundamentalist Christian precepts, and American foreign policy are to be fused more...