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Martin Ivens

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Keir Starmer’s Machiavellian Fixer Walks a Fine Line

Keir Starmer’s Machiavellian Fixer Walks a Fine Line
15.02.2025 6

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Martin Ivens

Keir Starmer's a Lawyer. The UK Needs a Leader.

Keir Starmer's a Lawyer. The UK Needs a Leader.
09.02.2025 10

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Martin Ivens

Rachel Reeves Is Safe as UK Chancellor — at Least for Now

To lay down a chancellor’s life to save your own is a grave step for any UK prime minister to take. When times are good, chancellors can be...

21.01.2025 10

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Keir Starmer Needs a More Modern Approach to Elon Musk’s Attacks

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is making the running in UK politics and the establishment can't stop him. To understand Musk’s impact,...

12.01.2025 20

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Labour's Education Agenda Smacks of Pettiness

One of Labour’s intellectual lodestars George Bernard Shaw wrote that “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some...

04.01.2025 4

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Musk Shouldn't Be Allowed to Toy With Britain's Democracy

By putting London’s lawyers, accountants and PR consultants at the service of global kleptocrats, the UK earned an unwholesome reputation as...

23.12.2024 10

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Putin’s Loss in Syria Exposes Western Failures

The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s “murderous regime” in Syria this week was celebrated with Churchillian bombast by Foreign Secretary David Lammy in...

15.12.2024 5

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British Politics Could Use Some French Lessons

Many Tories could not resist gloating when French Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s government fell on Wednesday after a no-confidence vote...

08.12.2024 20

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Labour Keeps Picking Fights With the Wrong Opponents

Rachel Reeves has the rare distinction among Britain’s chancellors of bearing the description ‘professional economist’ on her CV. Mysteriously,...

24.11.2024 4

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The Fall of an Archbishop Shows Apologizing Isn’t Enough

Archbishops of Canterbury are more likely to be executed by the state — the fate of Thomas Cranmer and William Laud in the Reformation era — than...

18.11.2024 2

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Keir Starmer Can’t Remain AWOL for His Next Hundred Days

In days of old, a monarch could in theory do no wrong — until the revolutionaries stormed the gates of the palace. Blame fell on ‘evil’...

12.10.2024 10

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Tories Remain the ‘Party Party.’ Time for a Bouncer.

The waiters serve a decent glass of champagne on the crowded decks of the Tory Titanic. No matter that the Conservatives suffered their worst...

05.10.2024 2

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Time’s Up for Starmer and the UK Avoiding Hard Choices

The Conservatives are the party of “easy answers,” sneered Keir Starmer in his speech to the Labour party conference in Liverpool this week. He...

28.09.2024 2

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Starmer’s Path to the Promised Land Starts With NHS

If everything is so good for the UK’s ruling Labour Party why does it feel so bad? Delegates gathering in Liverpool this weekend for their annual...

21.09.2024 3

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Starmer Is Burning Through His Political Capital

Franklin D. Roosevelt famously kicked off his first 100 days as US president declaring, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” In the...

14.09.2024 3

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Tories Are Having an Identity Crisis as Unpopular Populists

First, the good news for the next leader of the UK’s benighted Conservative party — the popularity of the new Labour government is tanking. After a...

07.09.2024 8

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Pessimistic Keir Starmer Needs a Better Story to Tell

“How’s that hopey, changey stuff working out?” sneered defeated Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, a year after Barack Obama...

02.09.2024 3

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Starmer Versus UK Labor Unions: Fight or Flight?

As a cub reporter, I once asked Margaret Thatcher why she hadn’t employed her tough new labor laws against a militant trade union. “Mr Ivens,” the...

23.08.2024 2

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Starmer's Two Urgent Challenges After a Week of Unrest

Swift justice has made hooligans think twice about joining the mobs that brought mayhem to Britain’s streets last week. Round-the-clock courts and...

10.08.2024 6

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Southport Violence Is an Early Test for Keir Starmer

The worst targeted attack on children in Britain for nearly three decades left three little girls dead and five more seriously wounded on Monday. A...

03.08.2024 1

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The Tories Are Holding an Ugly Pageant for Their Next Leader

After its worst electoral drubbing in history, the Conservative Party is staging a so-called beauty contest, with nominations for the party...

29.07.2024 6

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Labour’s Foreign Policy Walks a Tricky Tightrope

David Lammy, Labour’s foreign secretary, insists he can find “common ground” with his Republican pal JD Vance, Donald Trump’s pick for his...

22.07.2024 10

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