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In 2006 he published Vive La Revolution: A Stand-up History of the French Revolution, and in 2000 stood as a candidate in the London Assembly elections. </dd> <!-- If no Contacts available, don't print this dt/dd --> <!--<dt>Contacts</dt> <dd class="contacts"> <ul> <li class="email icon-mail"> <a href="mailto:robert.fisk@independent.co.uk">robert.fisk@independent.co.uk</a> </li> <li class="twitter icon-twitter"> <a href="http://twitter.com/robert_fisk" target="_blank">@robert_fisk</a> </li> <li class="facebook icon-facebook"> <a href="http://facebook.com/rfisk" target="_blank">facebook.com/rfiskprofile</a> </li> <li class="site icon-arrow"> <a href="http://rfisk.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">rfisk.blogspot.com</a> </li> </ul> </dd> </dl>--> </header> <div class="content"> <div class="row" data-tb-region="row-1"><article data-weight="2" class="weight-2"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hillary-clinton-just-admit-terrible-president-candidate-donald-trump-vote-voting-times-election-a7395921.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc" style="background-image: url('https://web.archive.org/web/20161107051504im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size2/public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/02/10/hillary-clinton.jpg');"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hillary-clinton-just-admit-terrible-president-candidate-donald-trump-vote-voting-times-election-a7395921.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hillary-clinton-just-admit-terrible-president-candidate-donald-trump-vote-voting-times-election-a7395921.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Hillary Clinton should just admit she's a terrible candidate</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>Can't she just level with them and say: 'Look, I know I’m a creepy lying sleazebag who can’t be trusted. I know I backed the Iraq War, and make up so many lies I accidentally claimed I was under fire in Serbia when I meant to say I wandered across a car park – but come on'?</p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story " data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc" style="background-image: url('https://web.archive.org/web/20161107051504im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/06/15/11/I-Daniel-Blake-Cannes.jpeg');"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ken-loach-i-daniel-blake-toby-young-life-on-benefits-rings-true-mark-steel-a7383461.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ken-loach-i-daniel-blake-toby-young-life-on-benefits-rings-true-mark-steel-a7383461.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Of course Toby Young understands what life is like on benefits</a></h1> </div> </div> <div class="grid-mod-card-list"> <ul> <li class="story" data-tb-region-item="2-2"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/refugee-children-calaid-jungle-dental-test-age-older-migrants-uk-mark-steel-a7372156.html"> <span class="image" style="background-image: url('https://web.archive.org/web/20161107051504im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/storylist/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/08/10/unaccompanied-minor-calais.jpg');"></span> <h2>We need to test refugee children to get the ones we ordered</h2> </a> </li> <li class="story" data-tb-region-item="2-3"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-grab-woman-by-pussy-sexist-uncouth-mistakes-in-youth-mark-steel-a7360051.html"> <span class="image" style="background-image: url('https://web.archive.org/web/20161107051504im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/storylist/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/10/11/presidential-trump-5.jpg');"></span> <h2>Who could have guessed that Donald Trump was sexist and uncouth?</h2> </a> </li> <li class="story" data-tb-region-item="2-4"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/30yearsoftheindependent/iraq-is-invaded-and-the-first-casualty-of-war-is-truth-a7349386.html"> <span class="image" style="background-image: url('https://web.archive.org/web/20161107051504im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/storylist/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/04/14/downloaddocument-37-1.png');"></span> <h2>Iraq is invaded... and the first casualty of war is truth</h2> </a> </li> </ul> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1" data-locked="true"> <div id="mpu0" class="grid-mod-single-mpu"> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-2"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1" data-locked="true"> <div id="mpu1" class="grid-mod-single-mpu"> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-conservative-party-speech-fighting-the-elite-historic-tradition-mark-steel-a7348936.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/06/09/612812774.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-conservative-party-speech-fighting-the-elite-historic-tradition-mark-steel-a7348936.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-conservative-party-speech-fighting-the-elite-historic-tradition-mark-steel-a7348936.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Theresa May must be a good Conservative if she's fighting the elite</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-labour-plotters-blairites-mps-learn-lessons-unite-party-last-few-months-a7338136.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/09/29/16/corbyn-speech-2016-09-28.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-labour-plotters-blairites-mps-learn-lessons-unite-party-last-few-months-a7338136.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-labour-plotters-blairites-mps-learn-lessons-unite-party-last-few-months-a7338136.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>The Labour plotters are right about Jeremy Corbyn</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-labour-leadership-owen-smith-result-soon-over-mark-steel-a7322801.html" data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/09/14/23/corbyn-smith-sky.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-labour-leadership-owen-smith-result-soon-over-mark-steel-a7322801.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-labour-leadership-owen-smith-result-soon-over-mark-steel-a7322801.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>The Labour leadership battle will soon be over – for three minutes</a></h1> </div> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-3"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/concentrix-benefits-tax-credits-cut-government-contract-stopped-necessary-tough-investigate-a7309146.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2015/09/10/20/1-Debt-Collector-Get.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/concentrix-benefits-tax-credits-cut-government-contract-stopped-necessary-tough-investigate-a7309146.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/concentrix-benefits-tax-credits-cut-government-contract-stopped-necessary-tough-investigate-a7309146.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>I feel sorry for Concentrix – they were just very enthusiastic</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-labour-members-are-being-banned-for-supporting-other-parties-then-labour-mps-should-be-banned-for-a7232551.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-cc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/08/27/11/jeremy-corbyn-arts.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-labour-members-are-being-banned-for-supporting-other-parties-then-labour-mps-should-be-banned-for-a7232551.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-labour-members-are-being-banned-for-supporting-other-parties-then-labour-mps-should-be-banned-for-a7232551.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Labour MPs should be banned from voting for supporting Tory policies </a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/at-last-nigel-farage-has-emerged-to-defend-the-ordinary-billionaires-of-the-world-like-donald-trump-a7209926.html" data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/08/25/17/front-cartoon-20160825.jpg"> <span class="icon-play large"></span> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/at-last-nigel-farage-has-emerged-to-defend-the-ordinary-billionaires-of-the-world-like-donald-trump-a7209926.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/at-last-nigel-farage-has-emerged-to-defend-the-ordinary-billionaires-of-the-world-like-donald-trump-a7209926.html">At last Farage has emerged to defend the ordinary billionaire Trump</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1" data-locked="true"> <div id="mpu2" class="grid-mod-single-mpu"> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-4"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/thanks-to-the-internet-there-are-now-millions-of-cyber-rupert-murdochs-a7197876.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2015/09/18/18/Corbyn-Bragg-Getty.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/thanks-to-the-internet-there-are-now-millions-of-cyber-rupert-murdochs-a7197876.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/thanks-to-the-internet-there-are-now-millions-of-cyber-rupert-murdochs-a7197876.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Thanks to the internet, there are now millions of mini cyber Murdochs</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>The wonder of the internet, it was suggested, would be to take power from the old media and allow everyone an outlet for their views. We would all, in effect, own a newspaper</p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/labour-jeremy-corbyn-ban-members-from-voting-high-court-can-t-be-trusted-economy-a7184971.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/08/11/15/corbyn-rally.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/labour-jeremy-corbyn-ban-members-from-voting-high-court-can-t-be-trusted-economy-a7184971.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/labour-jeremy-corbyn-ban-members-from-voting-high-court-can-t-be-trusted-economy-a7184971.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Ridiculously, Labour is using members’ money to ban them from voting</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>What a boost this approach would be for British business. Comet would never have gone bankrupt if anyone buying a washing machine handed over their money and was then told they wouldn’t be given a washing machine</p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/rio-2016-olympics-brazil-carnival-greed-doping-tear-gas-ill-still-watch-a7172276.html" data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/08/01/18/rio-olympics.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/rio-2016-olympics-brazil-carnival-greed-doping-tear-gas-ill-still-watch-a7172276.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/rio-2016-olympics-brazil-carnival-greed-doping-tear-gas-ill-still-watch-a7172276.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Rio 2016 will be a Brazilian carnival of greed, doping and tear gas</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p><span>Next week a press conference will be called because a Russian swimmer has been found to have blood that makes him 40 per cent human and 60 per cent jet-ski</span></p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-byron-burger-sports-direct-mike-ashley-lloyds-bank-southern-rail-eu-referendum-finally-free-a7160796.html" data-tb-region-item="4-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/07/12/13/southern-rail.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-byron-burger-sports-direct-mike-ashley-lloyds-bank-southern-rail-eu-referendum-finally-free-a7160796.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-byron-burger-sports-direct-mike-ashley-lloyds-bank-southern-rail-eu-referendum-finally-free-a7160796.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>After Brexit, Southern rail, Byron burger and Lloyds bank are free</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>The marvellous thing about privatisation is it introduces choice. If customers trying to get from East Grinstead to London aren’t happy with their rail service, they can choose to use a different rail network – such as the Trans-Siberian Express</p> </div> </div> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-5"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-voting-record-david-cameron-government-austerity-cuts-so-mean-she-loves-the-working-a7148761.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-cc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/07/18/12/theresa-may.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-voting-record-david-cameron-government-austerity-cuts-so-mean-she-loves-the-working-a7148761.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-voting-record-david-cameron-government-austerity-cuts-so-mean-she-loves-the-working-a7148761.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Theresa May loves the working classes – if you ignore her past</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyns-supporters-are-so-dangerous-they-took-over-labour-before-they-were-even-born-a7136711.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/07/13/10/jeremy-corbyn-1.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyns-supporters-are-so-dangerous-they-took-over-labour-before-they-were-even-born-a7136711.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyns-supporters-are-so-dangerous-they-took-over-labour-before-they-were-even-born-a7136711.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Corbyn's supporters took over Labour before they were even born</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-iraq-war-chilcot-report-tony-blair-right-important-matter-doing-up-tie-a7125521.html" data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/06/27/20/jeremy-corbyn-placard-speech_1.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-iraq-war-chilcot-report-tony-blair-right-important-matter-doing-up-tie-a7125521.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-iraq-war-chilcot-report-tony-blair-right-important-matter-doing-up-tie-a7125521.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>He might be right on Iraq, but Jeremy Corbyn can't do up his tie</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1" data-locked="true"> <div id="mpu3" class="grid-mod-single-mpu"> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-6"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/michael-gove-conservative-leader-next-prime-minister-sarah-vine-rupert-murdoch-daily-mail-personal-a7111656.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/20/10/Sarah-Vine-Rex.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/michael-gove-conservative-leader-next-prime-minister-sarah-vine-rupert-murdoch-daily-mail-personal-a7111656.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/michael-gove-conservative-leader-next-prime-minister-sarah-vine-rupert-murdoch-daily-mail-personal-a7111656.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Michael Gove isn't driven only by personal ambition, but his wife's</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>It's right that Sarah Vine dictates the terms under which the next Prime Minister stands. After all, she was fairly elected to the important constitutional role of Michael Gove’s Wife</p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/im-sick-of-the-super-pc-referendum-debates-where-you-cant-offend-anyone-lets-get-real-about-a7098011.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/06/23/11/referendum-9.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/im-sick-of-the-super-pc-referendum-debates-where-you-cant-offend-anyone-lets-get-real-about-a7098011.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/im-sick-of-the-super-pc-referendum-debates-where-you-cant-offend-anyone-lets-get-real-about-a7098011.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>I'm sick of the PC referendum debates where everyone takes offence</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>If, during Spain v Turkey at the Euros, the commentator had said, “That cross is cut out by the goalkeeper, who’s probably a commander of Isis and if the EU get their way will be living in Stoke by the end of the week, claiming it’s his human right to fire rocket-propelled grenades at your pot plants”, he’d have the PC brigade claiming this was “racist”</p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/eu-referendum-brexit-michael-gove-anti-austerity-activist-mark-steel-a7085786.html" data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/06/03/23/michael-gove.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/eu-referendum-brexit-michael-gove-anti-austerity-activist-mark-steel-a7085786.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/eu-referendum-brexit-michael-gove-anti-austerity-activist-mark-steel-a7085786.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Thanks to Brexit, we know Michael Gove is really an anti-cuts activist</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>As for Boris, he speaks the people's Latin: '<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Cameron? He can do one ad infinitum mate'</span></p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexiteers-legal-challenge-voter-registration-extension-democracy-dont-want-you-to-vote-a7073116.html" data-tb-region-item="4-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-cc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/04/14/20/aaron-banks-rex.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexiteers-legal-challenge-voter-registration-extension-democracy-dont-want-you-to-vote-a7073116.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexiteers-legal-challenge-voter-registration-extension-democracy-dont-want-you-to-vote-a7073116.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Brexiteers love democracy – that's why they don't want you to vote</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">'Most of us feel like starting the day by fishing for herring in an area designated for those with a European license. Eventually,</span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"> you can’t help but be sick of the EU telling you what to do'</span></p> </div> </div> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-7"><article data-weight="4" class="weight-4"><div class="partner-slots"> <div class="es-partners-slot parter-slot-1"> <div id="partner1"> </div> </div> <div class="es-partners-slot parter-slot-2"> <div id="partner2"> </div> </div> <div class="es-partners-slot parter-slot-3"> <div id="partner3"> </div> </div> <div class="es-partners-slot parter-slot-4"> <div id="partner4"> </div> </div> <div class="es-partners-slot parter-slot-5"> <div id="partner5"> </div> </div> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-8"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-we-vote-to-stay-in-the-eu-every-baby-will-get-their-own-house-isnt-that-what-were-being-told-a7061346.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-cc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/05/27/23/boris-johnson-david-cameron_0.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-we-vote-to-stay-in-the-eu-every-baby-will-get-their-own-house-isnt-that-what-were-being-told-a7061346.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-we-vote-to-stay-in-the-eu-every-baby-will-get-their-own-house-isnt-that-what-were-being-told-a7061346.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>If we vote to stay in the EU, every baby will get their own house</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-northern-ireland-abortion-laws-are-proving-that-the-troubles-were-nothing-but-a-silly-a7050561.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/04/04/18/abortion-protest-northern-ireland2.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-northern-ireland-abortion-laws-are-proving-that-the-troubles-were-nothing-but-a-silly-a7050561.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-northern-ireland-abortion-laws-are-proving-that-the-troubles-were-nothing-but-a-silly-a7050561.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>All the priesthood wants is a bit of health and safety. Is that wrong?</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/watching-the-tories-debate-brexit-is-like-witnessing-the-greek-philosophers-at-the-peak-of-their-a7037906.html" data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-cc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/03/10/00/web-boris-getty.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/watching-the-tories-debate-brexit-is-like-witnessing-the-greek-philosophers-at-the-peak-of-their-a7037906.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/watching-the-tories-debate-brexit-is-like-witnessing-the-greek-philosophers-at-the-peak-of-their-a7037906.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>The Brexit debate is like the Greek philosophers at their peak</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1" data-locked="true"> <div id="ayl" class="grid-mod-single-mpu"> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-9"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-labour-local-elections-sadiq-khan-queen-gaffe-iraq-war-chilcot-inquiry-a7026756.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/04/29/20/jeremy-corbyn-inquiry.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-labour-local-elections-sadiq-khan-queen-gaffe-iraq-war-chilcot-inquiry-a7026756.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-labour-local-elections-sadiq-khan-queen-gaffe-iraq-war-chilcot-inquiry-a7026756.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Jeremy Corbyn, it's all your fault – whatever it is</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">The best way to support the Labour Party is to behave like one of those angry football supporters who screams that </span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">their manager should be sacked if</span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"> they lose one game</span></p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/no-wonder-the-tories-are-shocked-by-labour-calling-khan-a-terrorist-sympathiser-was-so-racially-a7015191.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/05/05/17/sadiq-khan.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/no-wonder-the-tories-are-shocked-by-labour-calling-khan-a-terrorist-sympathiser-was-so-racially-a7015191.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/no-wonder-the-tories-are-shocked-by-labour-calling-khan-a-terrorist-sympathiser-was-so-racially-a7015191.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Labour needs to learn from the racial sensitivity shown by the Tories</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>The subtle point was that with him as mayor, transport policy would be for all drivers to blow themselves up, and you can’t see the unions agreeing to that</p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hillsborough-disaster-decision-police-incompetent-organised-lies-mark-steel-a7005036.html" data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-cc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/04/27/20/pp-hillsborough-vigil-11-getty.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hillsborough-disaster-decision-police-incompetent-organised-lies-mark-steel-a7005036.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hillsborough-disaster-decision-police-incompetent-organised-lies-mark-steel-a7005036.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Hillsborough police were incompetent? Hardly</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">If Colonel Gaddafi had any sense, he’d have told Kelvin MacKenzie he was just about to order free and fair elections when Liverpool fans without tickets broke down his door</span></p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/selfish-monarchists-need-to-give-the-queen-a-break-shes-90-for-gods-sake-a6995091.html" data-tb-region-item="4-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/04/21/12/queen-elizabeth.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/selfish-monarchists-need-to-give-the-queen-a-break-shes-90-for-gods-sake-a6995091.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/selfish-monarchists-need-to-give-the-queen-a-break-shes-90-for-gods-sake-a6995091.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Selfish monarchists need to give the Queen a break</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>Elizabeth's fans insist its vital that she continues to ‘serve’ - yet their adamant her appointment by heredity isn’t anti-democratic because the monarchy doesn't matter</p> </div> </div> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-10"><article data-weight="4" class="weight-4"><div class="partner-slots"> <div class="es-partners-slot parter-slot-1"> <div id="partner6"> </div> </div> <div class="es-partners-slot parter-slot-2"> <div id="partner7"> </div> </div> <div class="es-partners-slot parter-slot-3"> <div id="partner8"> </div> </div> <div class="es-partners-slot parter-slot-4"> <div id="partner9"> </div> </div> <div class="es-partners-slot parter-slot-5"> <div id="partner10"> </div> </div> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-11"><article data-weight="4" class="weight-4"> <div class="grid-mod-titled-separator margin"> <h1 class="box-title"> More headlines </h1> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-12"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/its-obvious-that-jeremy-corbyn-is-the-real-tax-dodger-thats-why-he-paid-more-tax-than-he-owed-a6984411.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/03/07/21/8-jeremy-corbyn-afp.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/its-obvious-that-jeremy-corbyn-is-the-real-tax-dodger-thats-why-he-paid-more-tax-than-he-owed-a6984411.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/its-obvious-that-jeremy-corbyn-is-the-real-tax-dodger-thats-why-he-paid-more-tax-than-he-owed-a6984411.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>It's obvious that Jeremy Corbyn is the real tax dodger</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-cameron-wont-benefit-from-his-fathers-offshore-trust-perhaps-he-got-through-eton-on-a-paper-round-a6973161.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/02/28/21/12-EU-referendum-PA.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-cameron-wont-benefit-from-his-fathers-offshore-trust-perhaps-he-got-through-eton-on-a-paper-round-a6973161.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-cameron-wont-benefit-from-his-fathers-offshore-trust-perhaps-he-got-through-eton-on-a-paper-round-a6973161.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Did Cameron put himself through Eton on a paper round?</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-librarians-and-steelworkers-wanted-state-bail-outs-they-should-have-done-something-useful-like-a6962121.html" data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2014/12/17/21/web-libraries-1-getty.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-librarians-and-steelworkers-wanted-state-bail-outs-they-should-have-done-something-useful-like-a6962121.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-librarians-and-steelworkers-wanted-state-bail-outs-they-should-have-done-something-useful-like-a6962121.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>If libraries wanted a bail-out they should have been useful like banks</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1" data-locked="true"> <div id="mpu5" class="grid-mod-single-mpu"> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-13"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/osborne-needn-t-say-sorry-after-all-it-was-just-a-suggestion-a6950736.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/03/17/15/Osborne-School-PA.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/osborne-needn-t-say-sorry-after-all-it-was-just-a-suggestion-a6950736.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" 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Some of us put cardboard packaging in the wrong recycling box. And some of us try to take £4 billion off the disabled</span></p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/thank-god-our-schools-have-finally-been-set-free-by-our-national-free-spirit-george-osborne-a6937016.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/03/14/17/teachers-strike-2.jpg"> <a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/thank-god-our-schools-have-finally-been-set-free-by-our-national-free-spirit-george-osborne-a6937016.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20161107051504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/thank-god-our-schools-have-finally-been-set-free-by-our-national-free-spirit-george-osborne-a6937016.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Thank God our schools have finally been set free by George Osborne</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Soon Osborne will announce the next stage, yelling: “Don’t let maths teachers control your thoughts by telling you what numbers to write down, man, set yourself free of their bureaucracy with our teacherless academies, where you can think of whatever number turns you on!"</span></p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20161107051504oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/we-re-mugs-being-gassed-in-the-calais-jungle-is-an-easy-life-in-europe-a6909961.html" data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image 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