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A Swiss lesson about neighbours
Cast adrift from the rest of Europe in self-imposed isolation, the UK is behaving like a spoilt child
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Cleaner politics needs more than just outing donors
Why not make it clear that any party which takes a donation from an individual cannot then award that individual an honour?
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Rishi Sunak has got the farming industry’s back -and he’s stabbed them in it
The PM’s performance at the NFU conference was pathetic even by his standards
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How the west betrayed Navalny
We could have helped him become Russia’s Mandela – but instead we preferred performative scolding and mindless culture wars
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Boris continues to be bankrolled
The former prime minister may be making millions now he’s left office, but he still can’t resist a freebie holiday
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The illogical war on international students
Despite the government’s best efforts, international students still want to study in the UK
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Tory MPs taking the GB News shilling are Nigel Farage’s useful idiots
Like a Venus flytrap, he welcomes Conservatives into his sanctum and is now slowly digesting them
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As Britain’s bad economic news mounts, all the Brexiteers can cry is, “But what about Germany?”
Sneering at another country with problems of its own making won’t solve our own
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The Home Office’s plan to pay influencers to deter migrants is both absurd and malevolent
The policy reads like ridiculous, clunky satire
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Heseltine: Brexit was ‘an act of self-annihilation’
The former deputy prime minister has urged the pro-European movement in the UK to show “vision”
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The Tories are sleepwalking towards oblivion
No one in Westminster dares to say it – but the Tories are heading for an extinction-level event
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The UK is in recession – and that makes a dodgy Sunak budget even more likely
Reckless tax cuts financed by slashing public spending will be the PM’'s answer to more bad economic news
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Rats in a Sack: Badenoch’s issue is Gove, Actually
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Nadine Dorries, Andrew Bridgen, Rishi Sunak and more
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Order cancelled: Delivery drivers strike a blow on Valentine’s Day
The people who carry things to your door are going on strike. Good for them
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Goldman Sachs says Brexit is costing us 5% of GDP. How long can this disaster go on?
While Kemi Badenoch celebrates meaningless memorandums, the damage of leaving the EU is becoming clearer
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It’s time to expose the anonymous political donors
Tory ministers have no interest in addressing this fundamental issue with our democracy
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Putin’s useful idiot only served one purpose: promoting fascism
Tucker Carlson’s interview with Putin did nothing but inflate the dictator’s ego and advertise his own version of history
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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Laura Trott’s car crash economics get a free ride
The reaction to her catastrophic interview would have been inescapable if Trott were a Labour minister
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Sunak is starting a very nasty election campaign
His comment at PMQs was absolutely calculated. He knew full well it would appeal to a certain group who might be on the fence about voting Reform over Tory
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Freeports: Sunak’s bad dream
A PM desperate for Brexit benefits has delivered at best a white elephant and at worst a huge waste of public money with big security risks
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‘Pompous prick’ Rees-Mogg wanders into the farmers’ fields of ire
Agriculture is in a crisis created by Brexit, and farmers are furious.. as Jacob Rees-Mogg found out
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A drag on humanity… has smoking been stubbed out?
As Sunak’s ban on new smokers opens up another war within the Conservative Party, is our relationship with tobacco coming to an end?
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Everyday philosophy: For Sunak, sorry seems to be the hardest word
The prime minister could still apologise for the offence caused by his recent remarks in PMQs – but he won’t
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Labour’s creaking machine
The mishandling of antisemitism allegations is the second gaffe by Starmer’s operation in as many weeks. Is his media team up to the job?
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‘They all sat in hate-filled silence’. The Tories and the birth of Brexit
In an exclusive extract from his diaries of 1999 and 2000, former Labour minister Denis MacShane reveals the growing xenophobia in the Tory Party under William Hague’s leadership – and how it sowed the seeds of Brexit
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Cartoon: The Legend of King Boris – should they bring him back?
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Sunak ponders Johnson’s return to frontline politics
Mandrake hears the former prime minister has named his price; a life peerage
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Six new policies for Starmer the centrist
As shadow cabinet ministers submitted manifesto wish lists this week, it’s time to remember where truly radical policy is built…
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Europe has become a Labour of love for the left
If Keir Starmer wins the election, how will he rebuild Britain’s relationship with Europe?
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How the Tories have squeezed law and order
Chronic underfunding has crushed both the courts and the police
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Why the housing industry is voting for Labour
The Tory party has been captured by the Nimbys
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The French have found a good use for Britain’s dead Brexit
PM Attal is using Britain’s struggles as a weapon against Le Pen in his EU election campaign