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Kate Lister

An unlikely coalition of Labour and Tory MPs can put Parliament back in charge

A new report makes the case for a radical overhaul of government. It opens thus: “The British state is the machinery by which we deliver prosperity...

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Mark Wallace

Trump's tariff bazooka will blast the UK, and Starmer has only one choice

Tomorrow is Donald Trump’s so-called “liberation day”, though for much of the world the prospect of America rolling out a punitive new rulebook for...

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Anne Mcelvoy

The Tories can't afford to pick landlords over renters anymore

They say that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Perhaps somebody should tell the Conservatives....

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Ben Kentish

Prince Harry is from the world’s oldest PR factory – so why is he so bad at it?

Those born into the monarchy acquire a number of rarefied skills that are completely redundant in the actual execution of modern life. Most of us...

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Sarah Carson

JD Vance's free speech hypocrisy is a threat to Starmer - and the UK

People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. The home of the US Vice President at Number One Observatory Circle is built of terracotta brick, but...

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Kate Maltby

I'm scared my son is speaking a language I can't understand - with emojis

The skull means “I’m dying laughing”. The blue freezing face means “Cold – as in the slang kind of cold”. The smiley face with the little...

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Lucy Mangan

Putin will escalate the war if he doesn't get what he wants from Trump

Donald Trump says that he is “pissed off” with president Vladimir Putin for delaying a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine and threatens to impose...

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Patrick Cockburn

Fewer babies will change everything about the way we live - and how we retire

The birthrate in England and Wales is at an all-time low. To keep populations steady, each woman needs to give birth to two children. The current...

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Hamish Mcrae

Finally, young people are waking up to the joys of corporate jobs

Prior to the lockdown five years ago, I’d spent every day of my working life – nearly four decades of it – in an office. It was where...

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Simon Kelner

Millennials are realising children are just not worth it – emotionally or financially

The birthrate in England and Wales is at an all-time low. To keep populations steady, each woman needs to give birth to two children. The current...

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Zing Tsjeng

Starmer needs to tell Labour’s story – before others do it for him

What comes to your mind when we ask what the Government at heart wants to achieve – and Keir Starmer’s personal role in that quest? To the first...

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Anne Mcelvoy

Right-wing leaders are regretting supporting Trump

There is not much to celebrate looking around the world today, seeing the continuing bloodshed in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan through to deep struggles...

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