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Hugh Muir

Hugh Muir

The Guardian

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Finally, the end of ‘the British empire’ – and maybe an honours system a modern country can live with

​Benjamin Zephaniah did it. So did ​Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. Howard Gayle, the pioneering black footballer, did it without a second thought.​...

04.11.2024 10

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This exit poll portends total rejection of these amoral Tories – and incredible vindication for Labour

Gradually, then suddenly. That is how Ernest Hemingway famously described a character’s bankruptcy. That was how the 14-year Tory hegemony of...

05.07.2024 50

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It has been a terrible general election. The least we can do is learn from it

It started with dark comedy. The sight of Rishi Sunak, behind the podium at No 10, drenched by the rain – a drowned rat in a sharp suit, drowned out...

04.07.2024 8

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Dear Tory voter: I see you’re getting an emergency letter from Boris Johnson. Things can only get worse

And so it has come to pass. We were told some time ago, via the Times and sources very close to Boris Johnson, that eventually Rishi Sunak’s plight...

18.06.2024 50

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Sunak, Johnson, Cameron, Truss – and Cummings in the frame again. This inept elite is playing us all for fools

What do we think of Rishi Sunak as he stares into the electoral abyss? What do we think he would do to save himself and perhaps the Tories? What do we...

01.01.2024 60

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As we mourn Benjamin Zephaniah’s death, learn this lesson from his brilliant life

Here are some things we know about the late, gone too soon, Benjamin Zephaniah. He was a prominent Rastafarian in the days before Rastamouse and Levi...

08.12.2023 20

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