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Kate Maltby

Starmer won’t fix child poverty because it doesn’t help him win an election

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Keir Starmer was warned and now Nigel Farage is coming for everything

Nigel Farage is in the party-smashing business. Having taken a wrecking ball to the Tories last year, he promptly declared on election night:...

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Mark Wallace

TikTokers are calling rape 'grape' to avoid censorship. It's beyond insulting

As the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure argued, language constitutes our world, it doesn’t just record it or label it. Words are not simply a verbal...

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Kate Lister

The King's visit to Canada is sending Trump a pointed message

In chess the king hangs back – symbolic, powerful and only rarely deployed. In international diplomacy his role depends on who is bringing him into...

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Kitty Donaldson

Competing visions and twinges of envy: it's Angela Rayner vs Rachel Reeves

The clash of Mary, Queen of Scots, and England’s Elizabeth I has given rise to dramatic interpretation since the 16th century. And now, in its...

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Anne Mcelvoy

10 years of grief has taught me one thing - there's no cure

A few months ago, a friend asked me if I was thinking of doing anything special to mark the 10 years of my husband Rob’s death anniversary at the...

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Poorna Bell

The next obvious U-turn for Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer has always seen his pragmatism as a strength. Where other political leaders get stuck in dogma, or feel obliged to please their...

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Isabel Hardman

Laugh all you like, but Boris and Carrie are setting an example

So Carrie Symonds has just had her fourth child – and Boris Johnson’s what, eighth? Ninth? Congratulations to them. It’s always a joyous event. The...

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Stefano Hatfield

The Tories are doomed – whoever is in charge

Here we go again. Another leader of the Conservatives is floundering, crushed by the job and haunted by their past. An ambitious rival stokes her...

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Ian Birrell

I don't care if I look like an old fart - young people need to know this one thing

Could I ever truly fall in love with someone who didn’t use correct punctuation? With someone who, for instance, would write “it’s” when they...

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Simon Kelner

Winter fuel could be just the start of a government assault on pensioners

“It wasn’t just the winter fuel fury we felt on the doorstep from pensioners, it was the sense they had that this was just the start,” a Labour MP...

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Kitty Donaldson

I'm in my 30s – my generation will be better at marriage than our parents

Is it any wonder millennials and Gen Z question monogamy, or that so many of us are sceptical of long-term relationships? We have witnessed so much...

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Pravina Rudra

I know from hard experience how important it is to care for black children's hair

There are lots of videos which come up on my feed on TikTok or Instagram which have nothing to do with the news but have me swinging between...

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Charlene White

The winter fuel rollback is another win for the old in a grim generation game

In our nation’s pitched battle between young and old, Wednesday will be notched up as a trench victory for the pensioners. The Prime Minister...

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Alison Phillips