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Fat people are being fed lies

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Rob Crossan

Hot air / This has not felt like a ‘record-breaking’ heatwave

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Ross Clark

Happy mediums / In defence of exorcism

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Francis Pike

Watch: Reeves in tears after Labour’s welfare U-turn

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Steerpike

Taxpayer to fund legal bills of ex-SNP chief

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Watch: McFadden refuses to rule out tax rises after welfare U-turn

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CPS considers further Letby charges

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Starmer throws his Chancellor under the bus

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Isabel Hardman

The war in Gaza is far from over

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Limor Simhony Philpott

Brandenburg Test / Kneecap and Bob Vylan shouldn’t be prosecuted

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Toby Young

Can freedom of movement survive Europe’s migrant crisis?

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Lisa Haseldine

Nissan’s future looks bleak

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Philip Patrick

Labour MPs should thank – not blame – Reeves for trying to cut welfare

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James Kirkup

Oasis nostalgia is a form of mass delusion

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Flora Watkins

Books / A life among movie stars can damage your health

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Olivia Cole

Dolce vita / My daring escape from the Italian police

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Nicholas Farrell

Don’t forget why welfare reform matters

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Lana Hempsall

How to humiliate a Range Rover driver

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Tanya Gold

I feel sorry for Rachel Reeves

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Michael Simmons

No, British trans people aren’t at risk of ‘genocide’

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Debbie Hayton

Labour has tied itself in knots over welfare reform

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Laurie Penny

If AstraZeneca quits the London Stock Exchange, it will be a disaster

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Matthew Lynn

Musk / The right is splintering

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Lee Cohen

At PMQs we saw Keir Starmer’s ugly side

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Madeline Grant

Ex-Tory minister suspended over ‘cash for questions’ row

Dear oh dear. Mr S reported on Saturday that former Conservative science minister George Freeman was under scrutiny over Sunday Times reports about...

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Steerpike

BBC chief left IDF death chants on livestream

Well, well, well. The chants of Bob Vylan frontman at Glastonbury – ‘death, death to the IDF’ – sparked outrage at the weekend and it wasn’t long...

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Steerpike

Three arrested at Letby hospital in manslaughter probe

To the Countess of Chester Hospital, where three hospital managers have been arrested as part of a corporate manslaughter probe relating to the...

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Politics / Boris donors come back to Kemi

Well, well, well. It appears that Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has managed to secure yet another notable donation – and this time from Tory...

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Steerpike

Can these Farage rivals’ start-ups hurt Reform?

You wait ages for a right-wing movement to come along – and then two do so at once. Former MEPs Ben Habib and Rupert Lowe both launched rival...

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James Heale

Martha’s Rule should be a model for changing the NHS

What do we really need to change about the NHS? Later this week we will finally get the NHS plan from Health Secretary Wes Streeting which, like...

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Isabel Hardman

How many Labour welfare rebels are left?

Tonight, we will find out just how many Labour welfare rebels there really are. A vote on the second reading of the government’s reforms is...

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James Heale

Wimbledon’s myth of elitism

Many were the jibes when Boris Johnson announced that he was ‘thrilled’ to be back on the tennis court in 2021 as lockdown restrictions eased....

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Arabella Byrne

Round 2 / Trump could bomb Iran again

President Trump has already warned Tehran that he’ll be back if Iran tries to revive and advance its nuclear programme, following the strikes by...

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Michael Evans

Labour MPs need a reality check on Britain’s ballooning benefits bill

‘No one votes Labour to cut the welfare state. People vote Labour to grow the welfare state. That’s the role of the party.’ That’s what John...

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Simon Cook

The royal train’s retirement is a loss to Britain

King Charles is a man acutely aware that the monarchy has to be seen to provide value for money in these straitened times. Therefore, to coincide...

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Alexander Larman

Cutting the cash Isa allowance screams of desperation

The economy has stagnated, foreign investment has collapsed, the non-doms have fled and the entrepreneurs are following them. Meanwhile, Labour...

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Matthew Lynn

Will the welfare bill really push 150,000 into poverty?

Labour MPs are obviously going to panic when told their votes might plunge just one person into poverty – let alone 250,000. That was the original...

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Michael Simmons

Adam Curtis can see your future

Adam Curtis used to make TikToks but he doesn’t want to talk about them. ‘I did quite a lot of TikTok, privately,’ he says, ‘just under...

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Max Jeffery

Venice is a city of love and menace

Jeff Bezos has brought much tat into the world, along with the undoubted convenience of Amazon’s services. But in at least one respect, he is a man...

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Nigel Jones

Classical music / Alfred Brendel was peerless – but he wasn’t universally loved

In middle age Alfred Brendel looked disconcertingly like Eric Morecambe – but, unlike the comedian in his legendary encounter with André Previn, he...

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Damian Thompson

Radio & podcasts / Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? The BBC, it seems

‘What a lark!’ I thought to myself as I rose on a hot June morning to listen to a documentary on Mrs Dalloway. A century has passed since Clarissa...

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Daisy Dunn

Can Wimbledon learn to love Novak Djokovic?

It’s only when they get older and start losing that we start loving them. That’s how it was with John McEnroe. ‘Superbrat’ we used to call him...

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Robert Taylor

ESG / Why corporations won’t let Pride die

Pride month has finally come to an end. Did you notice? There has definitely been a reduction in the number of parades, banners, and flags this...

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James Graham

Turkey’s Prophet Muhammad cartoon row is an ugly sign of the times

Hundreds of Turkish Islamists have attacked a satirical magazine after claiming that it published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad....

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Daniel Thorpe

Books / The wolf as symbol of European anxieties

On 19 December 2011, at around 3.30 a.m., a young wolf in the mountains of southern Slovenia trots away from his pack and never looks back. For the...

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Oliver Balch

Northern Ireland is still paying a heavy price for Brexit

This week heralds the arrival in Northern Ireland of yet more overregulation, bureaucratic overreach, and political incompetence. No, Keir Starmer...

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Adam James Pollock

End of the line / The demise of the Royal Train was inevitable

The news that the Royal Train is heading for that great siding in the sky appears to be at odds with the monarch’s longstanding and keenly felt...

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Christian Wolmar

Why is the BBC so obsessed with Munroe Bergdorf?

Can the BBC do anything right? Just days before it messed up spectacularly by failing to cut away from Bob Vylan’s offensive performance at...

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Gareth Roberts

The shame of a middle-aged gym-goer

We are told being non-judgemental is a virtue, that discrimination is a vice, and that the avoidance of prejudice is not merely possible but...

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Druin Burch

Fighting welfare rebels, Liz Kendall looked like a tortured woman

That this government is bad at maths will not come as a surprise to many readers. Thus far, however, in its endless parade of resounding successes,...

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Madeline Grant