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James Bloodworth is the Editor of Left Foot Forward, Britain’s most popular centre-left political blog. He’s a contributing editor for Progress and writes regularly for the Independent, the New Statesman and the Guardian. He tweets at @J_Bloodworth
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Cuba Does Russia’s Dirty Work. Again.
Same Old, Same OldReports that Cuban forces are now fighting in Syria follow a long history of the Castro brothers working closely with their patrons in Moscow.
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David Cameron: Historic Great or Dud?
HISTORIC?He has passed massive reforms to the welfare state and played the leader on the world stage, but something always seems to be missing.
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Open Cuba Doesn’t Mean Free Cuba
Left IllusionsObama thinks that repression in the Castro regime will decrease as a result of contact with the U.S. He’s wrong.
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NATO’s Greatest Failure Repeated?
BosniaThe excuses, indifference, and utter callousness that met genocide in the Balkans sound eerily familiar in Barack Obama’s Washington.
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The Banana Republic of East London
CORRUPTIONPolitical correctness and left-wing myopia helped protect Britain’s first democratically-elected Muslim mayor from corruption charges for years. Eventually justice caught up with him.
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The Dark Side of Cuba’s Ebola Economy
CASTROCAREThe communist government’s medical missionaries win praise for the regime, but they are victims, too.
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Putin’s Useful (British) Idiots
None So BlindFrom Neville Chamberlain to the pages of today’s ‘Guardian,’ many members of the British elite, left and right, have proved themselves suckers for totalitarianism.
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