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Bob Vylan and Kneecap row shows the right's hypocrisy on free speech

Oh my. Israel and its supporters are stunned and affronted. A chorus of severe disapproval has swept the land. During their performance at...

yesterday 30

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

I’m menopausal and have lost the ability to care about anything but myself

I was, to be honest, getting a little bit worried about myself. Specifically, about how little I care about anything anymore. I mean – my ability...

yesterday 7

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Lucy Mangan

No Labour MP should be voting for the benefits bill

In a desperate attempt to save face, the Government has granted concessions to the 130 Labour MPs threatening to rebel over the cuts to disability...

yesterday 6

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Andrew Fisher

We are now seeing why Starmer's leadership is fatally flawed

Another week, another retreat by the Government on its policy agenda. This time it’s welfare reform – which the Work and Pensions Secretary said...

yesterday 6

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Mark Wallace

Labour rebels smell blood – immigration and the two-child benefit cap are next

Dashing inside the Welsh Labour conference in Llandudno on Saturday, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer had to run a gauntlet of protesters. Holding...

yesterday 6

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Kitty Donaldson

Keir Starmer has a new plan – and it starts with finding his personality

Politics is a burdensome business, even more so when there are severe financial circumstances at home, conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine and now the...

yesterday 10

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Anne Mcelvoy

The BBC needs to focus on reporting the news - not being it

As Russian missiles fall on Ukraine, the death toll escalates in Gaza, and Iran’s Supreme Leader emerges from his bunker, BBC News executives have...

yesterday 10

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Ian Burrell

Never write Trump off: this was his best week in office

Never write Trump off: this was his best week in office

Donald Trump is enjoying his best week in office since he first became president nine years ago. To use mafia parlance, he is finally getting the “...

previous day 10

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Adam Boulton

Bob Vylan and Kneecap have exposed a disturbing truth about our democracy

Bob Vylan and Kneecap have exposed a disturbing truth about our democracy

A few years ago I was having a drink with an American friend who plays in a band big enough to headline festivals. He was agonising over whether...

previous day 9

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Ian Birrell

It's time to actually give Starmer some credit

It's time to actually give Starmer some credit

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s first year in office won’t be marked with party poppers and balloons. No 10 is keen to avoid an atmosphere of...

previous day 10

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Kitty Donaldson

A question for Keir Starmer: do you see your Government as immoral?

A question for Keir Starmer: do you see your Government as immoral?

Does the Government now see itself as immoral? I ask this because just a few days ago, Keir Starmer was arguing that there was a “clear moral case”...

saturday 20

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Isabel Hardman

Drone warfare makes defence spending look absurd

Drone warfare makes defence spending look absurd

Nato powers say they will sharply increase their military spending to 5 per cent of GDP, but few have thought seriously about the complications of...

saturday 6

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Patrick Cockburn

Peta has gone too far with its royal stunt – and lost my support

Peta has gone too far with its royal stunt – and lost my support

You don’t have to be a dog person, or indeed a royalist, to have been touched by a photograph, released this week, of Prince William cradling a...

27.06.2025 1

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Simon Kelner

Don't be angry about Jeff Bezos's wedding - we all indulge our friends on their big day

Don't be angry about Jeff Bezos's wedding - we all indulge our friends on their big day

I remember planning my wedding seven years ago. There was a lot to book, from a Capri tent to musicians – but at least I didn’t have to worry about...

27.06.2025 4

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Victoria Derbyshire

It's open season on Starmer – and his power is draining away

It's open season on Starmer – and his power is draining away

Sir Keir Starmer approaches his first anniversary in office with his authority and judgement frayed, and amid speculation from Labour MPs that the...

27.06.2025 7

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Kitty Donaldson

I used to be a 'nice' girl – but it left me depressed and burnt out

I used to be a 'nice' girl – but it left me depressed and burnt out

Did you know that the word “nice” originally meant something foolish or ignorant? It comes from the Latin word nescius, which meant to not know...

26.06.2025 2

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Kate Lister

Let's set the record straight on Sally Rooney and Palestine Action

Let's set the record straight on Sally Rooney and Palestine Action

Whatever your view of what it did at RAF Brize Norton last Friday, Palestine Action is quite clear about the intended impact on Britain’s military...

26.06.2025 1

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Kate Maltby

Trump is the world's Daddy – and it's pathetic

Trump is the world's Daddy – and it's pathetic

There is no escaping it: the Secretary General of Nato – the military alliance upon which the continued freedom of the Western world depends –...

26.06.2025 3

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James Ball

Reform’s plans for taxes and pensions are a joke

Reform’s plans for taxes and pensions are a joke

The rise of Reform UK is the result of a profound failure by the two main parties to convince voters that they are on their side. The utter loss of...

26.06.2025 1

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Hugo Gye

Keir Starmer is losing the moral argument on welfare

Keir Starmer is losing the moral argument on welfare

Moral arguments. Like pre-Sadiq London buses, you don’t get any for 14 years of Tory austerity, and then they all come along at once. The issue of...

26.06.2025 3

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Alison Phillips