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The precise moment my support for Keir Starmer began to crumble

The precise moment my support for Keir Starmer began to crumble
12.02.2025 3

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Starmer's Trump strategy is dull and infuriating – and it's working

Starmer's Trump strategy is dull and infuriating – and it's working
05.02.2025 6

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Brexit cheerleaders have gone awfully quiet – so let me remind you what they did to Britain

01.02.2025 3

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Look at Musk's salute in context and you can see the future of the US

23.01.2025 6

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Rachel Reeves needs to hold her nerve - her plan is right

15.01.2025 20

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The Tories have abandoned patriotism and replaced it with conspiracy

It wasn’t always like this. The British right was once respectable. It might have been objectionable or wrong in any number of ways, but it was at...

08.01.2025 2

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The Traitors reveals uncomfortable truths about our own democracy

This evening, Britain’s most perceptive and devastating political programme returns to our screens. It isn’t Question Time or Newsnight. It...

01.01.2025 1

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There’s only one thing we can do to stop Donald Trump's cruelty

One of the key elements of Donald Trump’s political agenda is cruelty. This is not a bug. It is a feature. Over and over again, he demonstrates...

01.01.2025 20

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The truth about Keir Starmer that we are too scared to say

Keir Starmer showed how to defeat populism. That is the key fact of this year. It is so big, and so obvious, that people seem to forget it, but it...

25.12.2024 7

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Nigel Farage is watching hungrily as the far right sweeps to power across Europe

Across Europe, the far right is in power, or agitating for it, or on the cusp of securing it. In 2025, European liberal democracy will be in a...

23.12.2024 50

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Finally, we've got a radical agenda from the Government

Every day, the same doom and despair. Every day, a new bouquet of pessimism. The latest GDP figures show the economy shrinking. The latest polling...

14.12.2024 6

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Brexit screwed young people - now it's payback time

Nick Thomas-Symonds is not an easy man to read. He sat there at the Lords European Affairs Committee hearing yesterday – stony-faced, speaking at a...

11.12.2024 3

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The country risking it all for Europe – as Brexit Britain buries its head

They come out every night. They’re shot at with rubber bullets and they’re fired upon by water cannons and they’re detained and they’re...

05.12.2024 8

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The election petition is the worst of Brexit all over again

You may have heard of the online petition for a general election. It’s causing a lot of excitement in right-wing circles. Even the leader of the...

27.11.2024 4

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Laughably naive Mandelson has shown he can’t deal with Trump

Sometimes the world changes violently. It’s so sudden, so quick, that you feel like the ground underneath you has shifted. And in those moments you...

20.11.2024 3

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Keir Starmer is allowing a vindictive culture to take root in No 10

What a silly, wasteful mess this has been. What a shoddy tale of squandered potential. The Sue Gray saga has now reached its logical conclusion. It...

13.11.2024 3

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Britain would now be leader of the free world... if it wasn't for Brexit

Following the Republican Party’s historic victory in the US elections, three i writers ask whether Donald Trump’s America can still be described as...

07.11.2024 3

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This is America's darkest dawn

Nearly every result that comes in – from counties to states, marginals to strongholds – shows the same pattern: Kamala Harris performing slightly...

06.11.2024 30

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To understand how good this Budget is, look at Sunak’s shimmering rage  

This was an immense work of economic authorship. It was, barring wars or pandemics, the most consequential Budget we will see for the next five...

30.10.2024 4

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The real story about British interference in the US election

The furore over Labour activists travelling to the US is utter nonsense. It involves Donald Trump. It’s pretty much nonsense by definition. If the...

23.10.2024 8

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Our braincells can’t withstand any more of these vacuous attacks on Starmer

Even by Westminster standards, the Taylor Swift story is the most unimaginable godawful bilge. It is baseless. It is inane. It erodes the...

16.10.2024 10

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The Tories have just chosen five more years of lunacy and chaos

It really doesn’t matter what task you set the modern Conservative Party. It can be simple or complicated, large or small. It’s irrelevant....

09.10.2024 6

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Three out of the four Tory candidates spell one thing: doom

There was only one reasonable conclusion you could draw after two interminable hours of Tory leadership speeches. It was that James Cleverly was...

03.10.2024 6

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The real story about Sue Gray

Every day another attack. Every day another salvo, another damning headline. Sue Gray, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, gets more critical articles...

25.09.2024 3

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Scottish independence efforts have proved tragic, divisive and pointless

In 10 years, Scottish independence has achieved precisely nothing. Today marks a decade since the referendum. In that time we’ve seen anger,...

18.09.2024 4

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The Tories brought the prison system to a point of total breakdown. They must own it

So now they’re finally paying attention. Now, after years of failure, elements of the right-wing press suddenly care about the state of the...

11.09.2024 3

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Robert Jenrick has the charisma of faded wallpaper – now he could lead the Tories

No matter how often we witness Tory insanity, the party still has the ability to surprise us. It’s an extraordinary accomplishment, in its way. You...

04.09.2024 5

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We are heading back towards Europe – it's slow but glorious progress

We are heading back towards Europe. It is going to take a long time. It is going to be difficult, frustrating and probably really rather...

28.08.2024 3

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Nigel Farage has been exposed - disgrace is all that's left

Even by his standards, it’s been a tawdry spectacle. Even by his standards, he’s behaved despicably. Every day, Nigel Farage commits a new outrage...

07.08.2024 50

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Hatred, conspiracies and dog-whistle politics created the Southport riot

The scenes in Southport last night are enough to rob you of any lingering faith in humanity. They are horrific beyond our capacity to describe with...

31.07.2024 9

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Kemi Badenoch would be a disastrous Tory leader. And that's why she will win

We’ve got our first indication of which way the Tory leadership race is going. Needless to say, it will be a disaster. And that disaster is likely...

10.07.2024 4

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