Herald View A MANIFESTO, going by the name, ought to be a list of things easily seen, clearly understood, or otherwise obvious. For movements in fine art, film-making or literature, that means general principles, rather than a detailed description of forthcoming work; but that hasn’t been fashionable in politics since the Communist Manifesto’s stirring but vague: “Workers of the world , unite!”
Nowadays, it’s the other way around. The manifesto, for modern political parties, resembles a catalogue of things they would like to see. So, to take a random example, converting one million homes from gas to zero emissions energy […]
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