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T_i_B

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3. I suspect that he's doing as much as he can...

Reply to Denzil_DC (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 15, 2017, 06:49 AM

Dec 2017

....but he does have considerable opposition to taking a stand against Trident both in his own party and the wider electorate.

As to the OP? Well I may have heard of the Nobel Peace Prize but I've honestly never heard of the Sean MacBride Peace Prize, and the obscurity of the gong would appear to be a good explanation of why UK media coverage has been so scant.

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Jeremy Corbyn and Noam Chomsky win Sean MacBride Peace Prize amid media silence [View all] sandensea Dec 2017 OP

Don't want to gripe or threadcrap from the off, Denzil_DC Dec 2017 #1

Absolutely. sandensea Dec 2017 #2

I suspect that he's doing as much as he can... T_i_B Dec 2017 #3

Channel 4 has done a 'fact check' on this: muriel_volestrangler Dec 2017 #4

"Amid" in any headline has become one of my favourite media weasel words. Denzil_DC Dec 2017 #5