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Labour can no longer hide from the cost of Brexit
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Weak growth and a Trump trade war could force the party to change its Europe policy.
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Who are Britain’s new aristocrats?
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An elite by inheritance still holds sway but it has been joined by an elite of grafters.
on Sep 4
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The Canadian thinker’s self-made deity is a symptom of the modern Western malady.
on Thu, 3AM
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Is BlueSky having its breakthrough moment?
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The Guardian has announced it will no longer post on X – others will follow.
on Wed, 8PM
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The political afterlife of Paradise Lost
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From white supremacists to black activists, readers have sought moral legitimacy in Milton’s epic poem.
on Wed, 1AM
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The left case against slavery reparations
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Black Britain should not be chained to the scars of the past.
on Tue, 6AM
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Keir Starmer wants immigration control to be a Labour cause
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The Prime Minister is seeking to redefine the politics of border security.
on Mon, 11AM
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What Christopher Nolan got wrong about Oppenheimer
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I spent eleven years writing a biography of Oppenheimer. Does Nolan’s film “capture” him in all his complexity?
on Sun, 1AM
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Samantha Harvey: “Orbital isn’t the kind of book that normally wins the Booker”
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The day after winning the prize, the British author discusses choosing to write a story set in space, climate change, and why she didn’t set out to write a political novel.
on Fri, 11PM
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Thought Experiment 5: Wittgenstein’s Beetle
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Language can function only because there are public criteria for acceptable usage.
on Nov 15
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We’re going to find out how bad Project 2025 will be
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Trump 2.0 may immiserate America in a way his first time in office could not.
on Nov 13
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Trump’s war on the “deep state”
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Is the feuding, dysfunctional American government beyond salvaging?
on Nov 11
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“I tried to give Britain a different narrative”: Tony Blair and Michael Sheen in conversation
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The former prime minister and the actor who played him talk “wokeness”, national identity, and what Blair has in common with Jeremy Corbyn.
on Nov 10
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Elon Musk proves the absolute power of the markets
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The Tesla billionaire helped Donald Trump secure his victory – and, by extension, so did we all.
on Nov 9
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Jilly Cooper's economic fantasies
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Rivals makes the 1980s look like sunlit uplands.
on Nov 9
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Bernie Sanders crashes Kamala Harris’s stubborn farewell speech
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Will the Democratic elite learn anything from her defeat?
on Nov 7
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In America, women are disposable
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Donald Trump’s win is a betrayal of women's fundamental rights.
on Nov 6
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Who scuppered Kamala Harris’s campaign?
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Incoherence and inauthenticity paved Trump’s path to victory.
on Nov 6
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Anthony Scaramucci: “Donald Trump has no friends. He’ll run you over with a car”
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The former White House director of communications on his old boss, Kamala Harris and Project 2025.
on Nov 5
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Why the first black British prime minister is likely to be a Conservative
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The great secret to the Conservatives’ increasingly diverse parliamentary party is their even greater institutional health.
on Nov 4
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Has Rachel Reeves missed the bus?
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Lifting the fare cap was better politics than it was policy.
on Nov 2
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The spectre of American fascism
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Kamala Harris’s bid for power is part of a long struggle against the politics of racism.
on Nov 1
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Steve McQueen’s new film suggests the Second World War was not simply a time of uncomplicated national unity.
on Nov 1
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How Kraftwerk’s Autobahn remade pop
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Half a century ago, the art-rock band introduced the world to the vocoder. Their sound – and pop music – was forever changed.
on Oct 30
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Why Iran’s execution of Ruhollah Zam should be seen as a warning in the West
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The journalist’s death is part of a wider escalation in the Iranian regime’s disregard for international law.
on Oct 29
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Labour has laid a trap for the Tories
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The Budget will be used to cast the next Conservative leader as a threat to public services.
on Oct 28
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Why the American right loathes modern Britain
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Trump's attacks on Labour are a small part of a darker political nightmare.
on Oct 26
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Pedro Almodóvar’s conflict of interests
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The Room Next Door resolves the Spanish director’s struggle between black comedy and bookish melodrama.
on Oct 25
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How to salvage the HS2 embarrassment
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This is Labour's chance to show it is serious about investment.
on Oct 25
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The anarchist: How David Graeber became the left’s most influential thinker
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The anthropologist and best-selling author will be remembered for a life spent fighting for a freer, more joyous and egalitarian world.
on Oct 25
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Undercover: Exposing the Far Right reveals a vile network of pathetic fascists
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This film from Hope Not Hate – pulled from the London Film Festival on safety grounds – has a lot to say about bigotry and cowardice.
on Oct 23
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The UK has a fertility crisis - the housing market is to blame
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The cost of living makes it hard to start a family in the city. People will stay anyway.
on Oct 21
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Inside Britain’s prisons crisis
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Austerity has reduced a working system to one of ungovernable horrors.
on Oct 19
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Richard Dawkins, the gene genie
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The great scientist strays into speculation in The Genetic Book of the Dead, his latest defence of his “selfish gene” theory of evolution.
on Oct 18
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Wes Streeting can’t solve unemployment with weight-loss drugs
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There is a link between obesity and worklessness, but this is not the solution.
on Oct 18
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What will the government sacrifice in the pursuit of economic growth?
on Oct 17
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The resurrection of John le Carré
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In Karla’s Choice the late spy novelist’s son Nick Harkaway has revived George Smiley – but he cannot match the story of his father’s secret life.
on Oct 17
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The music of the baby boomers survived into the 21st century, with stars still performing in their eighties. Can it last?
on Oct 17
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Tony Blair is wrong – AI will not magically solve our public services
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Too many people might be left out of its revolution.
on Oct 16
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Labour may rejoice in Clegg’s downfall but they need the Lib Dems alive
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Labour may not like it but Clegg’s party is on the same side in an emerging culture war against illiberalism and xenophobia, highlighted by Ukip successes.
on Oct 10
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The Churchill Factor: “One man who made history” by another who just makes it up
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Reading Johnson’s The Churchill Factor is like “being harangued for hours by Bertie Wooster” writes Richard J Evans.
on Oct 10
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Is this really the death of the popular politician?
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Broad popularity is difficult to achieve when voters live in their own political worlds.
on Oct 8
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How black Arsenal changed football
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For fans and players, the north London club has come to offer a sense of belonging.
on Oct 8
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Letter from Gaza: a year of devastation
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Alongside the alphabet of letters, Gazan children learn the language of war.
on Oct 8
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Don’t be seduced by the myths of the economic right
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The authors of an influential new pamphlet are regurgitating bad history.
on Oct 8
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The wrongness of Boris Johnson
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Despite being strewn with mistakes, Unleashed shows that deep down the former PM always believes himself to be right.
on Oct 8