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Labour’s green climbdown shows Starmer must stop letting the Tories dictate his strategy
This episode bodes ill for the party in an election campaign - and in government if they win
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Rats in a Sack: Is Holly Valance a harbinger of doom for the PopCons?
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at News UK friendly fire, a new Tory deputy chair, Schnapps with Shapps and more
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Sunak is incompetent. But what if he’s also inhuman?
The PM’s callous ‘joke’ in front of Brianna Ghey’s mother is a new low
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Labour’s green U-turn explains the need to abandon political targets
The public need a leader who can deliver a target-free message
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The flipside of Sunak’s smugness is his undeniable ridiculousness. He’s a joke
When they’re laughing at you, you know you’ve lost
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The worst of the Tory-created council cash crisis is yet to come
Easy to criticise and burden with blame, local government is the perfect scapegoat for the Tories
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Starmer needs no help in smearing his own name
He has reneged on just about every commitment he made to become Labour leader, and seems to be suggesting nothing will change
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Northern Ireland is still broken
Stormont may be back, but the rot and dysfunction at the heart of Northern Ireland will not be easily fixed
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Brexit: a ‘total disaster’ of our own making
Brexit has caused a crisis for British manufacturers who export into Europe – and things could be about to get even worse...
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Everyday philosophy: Are we entering the age of the cyborg?
For those who can afford it, Neuralink’s breakthrough gives us the opportunity to become superhuman
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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Derek Draper and the Dalai Lama
The point of life is to live it and Derek embodied this
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The Popular Conservatives – neither popular nor conservative
A very strange group of people gathered together in London today to promote a political agenda that nobody wants
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Cartoon: What would happen to an army full of Boris Johnsons?
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Sir Ed Davey breaks his silence over the Post Office scandal
Davey is desperately trying to fight off allegations of being “the invisible man”
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Fixing Britain’s relationship with the EU won’t be easy for Labour
The public is wary of returning to the divisive rhetoric that consumed Britain in 2016
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Liz Truss and the PopCon attention seekers
All they really want is to be on telly...
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Shame on the right for demonising refugees over the Clapham attack
Toxic masculinity, not the asylum system, is to blame for a rise in crimes using corrosive substances
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‘No regrets’ say the Brexiteers… but here’s a small business that thinks otherwise
While Rees-Mogg and Leadsom celebrate leaving the EU, a deli owner speaks out about the extra cost of red tape
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MPs and the threat of violence
Too many politicians in Westminster live in fear of their lives
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Labour’s green energy climbdown raises questions about Starmer
There is still a feeling that we don’t know who he really is
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The Brexit fog begins to clear for Andrea Leadsom – eight years too late
One Europhobe is finally waking up to the costs of leaving the EU
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Rats in a Sack: Is Stanley Johnson a Rejoiner?
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Lee Anderson, Ukip, Chris Heaton-Harris and more
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The data that shows how areas that voted Leave have been worst hit by Brexit
An ONS study exposes the myth of levelling up and shows London soaring away from the rest of the country
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PMQs Review: Phil in your own headline here
This week's Commons match-up was dominated by an Iceland worker from Warrington
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Europe’s defence if Trump wins was the spectre at the Davos feast
The state of Europe’s fighting forces was too controversial a topic for the Davos agenda
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An economy in crisis. A leadership in denial. The great fall of China is here
Soon, China’s politics will give way to economics and its debt crisis will inevitably entail pain for consumers
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Project Smear Starmer
The right wing press is stepping up its attacks on Labour’s leader as the general election nears. But what happens if he wins?
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How can humanity begin again? With hope and inclusion
In this extract from his new book, bestselling author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers suggests we start to focus on the kind of world we want, not the one we don’t
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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Israel must talk to Hamas
Everything is impossible, as Nelson Mandela liked to put it, until you make it happen
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The bitter taste of Brexit: New red tape will mean higher food prices
Just as food inflation finally slows, new border checks will make EU produce more expensive in our shops
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The antisocial Tories’ epic video fail
A misfiring ‘personalised’ video by Rishi Sunak proves that politicians are getting online comms badly wrong
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The Conservatives know they’re going to lose. But they still have no idea why
The Tories’ delusion knows no bounds – their electoral annihilation will be blamed on everyone and everything other than themselves