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At Brighton, Polanski raised his arms in triumph. It felt more like a wave goodbye | John Crace

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At Brighton, Polanski raised his arms in triumph. It felt more like a wave goodbye | John Crace. The Greens’ leader seems long on agitprop but short on ideas – and one byelection away from losing his job The Chronicle of a Death Foretold. It must be weird to realise that you have in effect made yourself obsolete inside a year. Worse, that you have actively accelerated your demise. Even AI doesn’t work at that speed. But that’s precisely what it looks as if Zack Polanski has done. Maybe he should just look on the bright side. He’s managed eight.

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