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Rafael Behr

The Guardian

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Trump is being schooled on the limits of US power – but he is a slow learner

Donald Trump is teaching the world a lesson, but not the one he thinks. The attack on Iran was meant to be a dazzling display of military supremacy....

18.03.2026 10

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Trump’s ego-trip war has collided with economic reality but he can’t undo the damage

Waging war with no fixed purpose means victory can be declared at any point. Donald Trump’s motives for launching Operation Epic Fury against Iran...

11.03.2026 20

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Starmer’s position on Iran pleases no one, but that is because there are no good options

It is not easy being a friend of Donald Trump, but it is a lot less dangerous than being his enemy. There isn’t a huge range of options in between....

03.03.2026 10

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From Trump’s Maga to Farage’s Reform, they’re all following Putin’s nationalism playbook

In September 2022, seven months into an all-out war in Ukraine that was only supposed to last a few weeks, Russian schoolchildren started compulsory...

25.02.2026 10

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It appears you no longer have the right to protest

11.02.2026 150

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Keir Starmer is the bandage that Labour can’t rip off for fear of opening old wounds

11.02.2026 10

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When Maga oligarchs control the platforms, it isn’t really a debate about ‘free speech’

04.02.2026 100

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From the Burnham row to the China visit, avoiding hard choices is the Starmer doctrine

28.01.2026 20

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Donald Trump is not forgetting America’s old alliances – his goal is to destroy them

21.01.2026 100

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Labour and the Tories are banking on a return to the ‘old normal’. That’s not what voters want

14.01.2026 30

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Is Starmer’s reluctance to criticise Trump smart tactics – or the sign of a man without a plan?

07.01.2026 30

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When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control

23.12.2025 50

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I got smashed in the face by a cricket ball – a true story about physics and hardened leather (and a cartoonist)

17.12.2025 30

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Putin thinks democracy is the west’s weakness. We have to prove him wrong

17.12.2025 60

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Australia’s kids are saved! The social media ban is here and all the teens are outside touching grass

10.12.2025 10

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A braver Tory leader than Badenoch would dare to call out Farage’s bogus patriotism

10.12.2025 20

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Fear of facing the future has British politics stuck in the past

03.12.2025 10

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Have you seen the new BoM website? Everyone is so mad about it

26.11.2025 10

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Rachel Reeves has many problems. She’s realising that her Brexit bind may be the biggest of all

26.11.2025 10

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Killing season! That magical time of year when unlikeable political leaders get the proverbial chop

19.11.2025 20

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Starmer’s squandering of a historic election victory is a tragedy nearing its finale

19.11.2025 10

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What do you need to do to ‘earn’ a trillion dollars in this economy?

12.11.2025 10

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There’s a missing link in British public life – and it underpins crises from the BBC to our prisons

12.11.2025 10

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Three hours of complimentary artisanal electricity? What will you do with yours?

05.11.2025 10

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Economic policy is one thing Nigel Farage can’t crib from the Donald Trump playbook

05.11.2025 10

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Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit

22.10.2025 100

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The crisis engulfing Emmanuel Macron contains a warning for Keir Starmer

15.10.2025 10

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Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism

08.10.2025 8

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Resisting Faragism offers the Lib Dems a rare clarity of purpose

24.09.2025 30

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Keir Starmer is betting everything on an America that doesn’t exist any more

17.09.2025 10

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Starmer should beware: in this volatile age, no majority and no leader is secure for long

10.09.2025 8

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While Starmer struggles with a broken system in Westminster, real power keeps leaking elsewhere

04.09.2025 10

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What would happen if Australia stopped supplying F-35 parts to Israel?

27.08.2025 10

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There’s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer won’t do it

27.08.2025 10

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By sanctioning journalists, the Kremlin admits how much the truth hurts

22.08.2025 10

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European leaders behave like supplicants to an almighty Trump. Putin just sees him as a protege

19.08.2025 10

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Trump swallowing Putin’s lies is a bigger threat to Ukraine than bombs

13.08.2025 10

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We’re being deafened by digital noise. Pause it and you hear the sound of democracy in crisis

06.08.2025 10

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Trump isn’t a reliable ally – but Nato dollars can be more persuasive than Putin’s propaganda

16.07.2025 10

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Macron and Starmer talk Trump, boats and Ukraine – but Brexit is the ghost at the banquet

09.07.2025 10

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After the welfare vote debacle, this much is clear: Starmer must change. Labour MPs will demand it

When politicians can’t admit they are losing, they say they are listening. Your anger has been heard, says the contrite minister after a byelection...

02.07.2025 10

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Trump is angry with a world that won’t give him easy deals

25.06.2025 10

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G7 leaders are paralysed by their fear of upsetting Donald Trump

18.06.2025 10

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Rachel Reeves’s economic vision is coming into focus – a year too late

10.06.2025 10

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The spirit of Liz Truss, ridiculous but relentless, stalks British politics

04.06.2025 10

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In the never-ending Brexit Wars saga, reality is finally fighting back

20.05.2025 10

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Keir Starmer is caught in yet another trap of his own making

14.05.2025 10

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Keir Starmer can’t build a stronger European partnership by stealth. He has to declare it aloud

09.05.2025 10

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The Tories have shown Labour exactly how not to fight Farage

30.04.2025 7

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Nigel Farage thinks net zero is the new Brexit. Starmer can prove him wrong

23.04.2025 10

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