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The walls are closing in on Trump as Murdoch refuses to be cowed

The walls are closing in on Trump as Murdoch refuses to be cowed

For the Epstein conspiracy theory cranks, it must feel like Vindication Day. After weeks of fevered debate about what information exists about...

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Alison Phillips

Melania won’t be able to stay quiet forever as Trump-Epstein controversy explodes  

Melania won’t be able to stay quiet forever as Trump-Epstein controversy explodes  

Donald Trump almost never shuts up. Melania Trump, by contrast, hardly ever speaks. She keeps a lower profile than any other first lady of the...

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James Ball

I am horrified by the selfishness of resident doctors

I am horrified by the selfishness of resident doctors

It is painfully symbolic that the British Medical Association (BMA) prepared for its latest round of strikes by sending its first delegation to the...

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Ian Birrell

Nigel Farage has played a blinder on the state pension – and not just because he's right

Nigel Farage has played a blinder on the state pension – and not just because he's right

This is Armchair Economics with Hamish McRae, a subscriber-only newsletter from The i Paper. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every...

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Hamish Mcrae

Farage is honouring a British tradition - a very ugly one

Farage is honouring a British tradition - a very ugly one

Last October, in a now-notorious tweet, former childminder Lucy Connolly wrote: “Mass deportation now. Set fire to all the f-ing hotels full of the...

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Kate Maltby

Has Bridget Jones taught us nothing about having sex with your boss? 

Has Bridget Jones taught us nothing about having sex with your boss? 

If last week’s exposé of a couple apparently adulterously canoodling at a Coldplay concert has taught us anything, it is surely this: do not...

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Kate Lister

Want to take the whole of August off? It would cause more inequality than Covid

Want to take the whole of August off? It would cause more inequality than Covid

Imagine a world where August is a universal month off for the UK — a time for rest, family, holidays and no work. It’s a practice favoured in...

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Hamish Mcrae

Take responsibility for your pension – it's not fair to rely on younger people

Take responsibility for your pension – it's not fair to rely on younger people

We are not saving enough for our pensions, says the Government, and it is right. Nearly half of all working-age adults are not saving anything at...

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Hamish Mcrae

A new Section 28 is here – and it will harm gender-nonconforming children

A new Section 28 is here – and it will harm gender-nonconforming children

Poor teachers. Badly paid, overworked, and before teaching a single fact, they have to deal with pupils imbibing Andrew Tate, suffering mental...

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Patrick Strudwick

Kemi Badenoch’s shadow cabinet reshuffle was deliberately bland

Kemi Badenoch’s shadow cabinet reshuffle was deliberately bland

There is always a slightly melancholy air to a Shadow Cabinet reshuffle. By definition, the power in the hands of each individual is very small,...

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Eliot Wilson

The mood is shifting on Gaza – but spineless UK is being left behind

The mood is shifting on Gaza – but spineless UK is being left behind

How the world turns. Today, this lifelong leftie is revolted by Foreign Secretary David Lammy and venerates Kit Malthouse, a Tory MP, and once a...

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Britain has a drug problem: let's have a grown-up conversation about it

Britain has a drug problem: let's have a grown-up conversation about it

It’s officially summer, which means one thing – news outlets are full of stories about drugged-up Brits overdoing it in Ibiza, Berlin or your music...

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Zing Tsjeng

Tim Davie saved the BBC - Lisa Nandy fires him at her peril

Tim Davie saved the BBC - Lisa Nandy fires him at her peril

For reasons not entirely clear, the Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy, appears bent on bringing down Tim Davie, the director-general (DG) of the BBC....

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Ian Burrell

King Charles is quite right to be fussy about his garden

King Charles is quite right to be fussy about his garden

If your job was, let’s say, reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, you’d think there were very many more important things to worry about than the...

21.07.2025 1

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Simon Kelner

The Cunliffe report proves it: water must be nationalised

The Cunliffe report proves it: water must be nationalised

The Cunliffe Report is a joke. It protects water profiteers, screws over billpayers, and will do little to reduce pollution in our rivers and...

21.07.2025 1

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Andrew Fisher

The way we rent is about to change dramatically

The way we rent is about to change dramatically

Over the last decade, Generation Rent has been expanding. Since the early 2000s, the number of households that rely on a private landlord to provide...

21.07.2025 1

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Vicky Spratt

JD Vance is holidaying in the Cotswolds – strange choice for an anti-elitist politician

JD Vance is holidaying in the Cotswolds – strange choice for an anti-elitist politician

Ellen DeGeneres cannot catch a break. The liberal talk-show host moved to the UK with her wife last year, to avoid living in the United States...

21.07.2025 1

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James Ball

Domestic violence campaigners feel let down by Jess Phillips

Domestic violence campaigners feel let down by Jess Phillips

Are you even a proper veterans’ minister if you’re not on “resignation watch”? Al Carns is the current holder of that role, and he is conforming to...

20.07.2025 3

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Isabel Hardman

Trump has become the victim of his own conspiracy theories

Trump has become the victim of his own conspiracy theories

After toying several times with running for president to boost his book and speaker fees, Donald Trump launched his political career by promoting a...

20.07.2025 5

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Ian Birrell

Starmer’s government is becoming a Blairite tribute band - without the hits

Starmer’s government is becoming a Blairite tribute band - without the hits

Abba Voyage, the 21st-century AI reincarnation of the Swedish megastars who ruled the roost from the mid 1970s to early 1980s, is still raking in...

20.07.2025 1

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Anne Mcelvoy