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Britain’s dirty media and the threat to press freedom
Riddled with foreign ownership, a number of Britain’s biggest newspapers have developed some very telling blind spots
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Boris Johnson, a sorry excuse for a man
Some Tory MPs still dream of Boris Johnson returning as PM. After his Covid inquiry appearance, are they mad?
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Pandering to the far right on immigration will bring economic disaster
The government’s migration plans are a cruel mess that will harm British business – and they know it
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Is there a credible Tory Party leader somewhere out there?
The whole Rwanda debacle is just a deceit to fool some voters and try to please the Tory backbenchers.
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Get ready for Nigella Farage as third-rater seeks another TV funwash
Having finished third on I’m a Celebrity, Nasty Nigel will no doubt be back on our screens with further cynical attempts to detoxify his public image
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Why the Rwanda plan reminds me of my Communist youth
Their absurd arguments are cover for their own impending irrelevance
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The Tories are a bunch of pound shop Enoch Powells
Faced with electoral oblivion, their reckless actions risk inflicting damage on the country that will take many years to repair
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Cartoon: Is the Tory party coming apart at the seams?
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The economy is heading towards a crisis at Christmas
High wage growth means tough choices ahead for the Bank of England
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Russia hacked me. The far left smeared me. Now it’s time to fight back
By hacking journalists, Russia is trying to stifle our democracy’s information flow
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The New European told Michelle Mone to ‘sail on’
In August, the Conservative life peer threatened legal action over our ‘Stop This Boat’ front page
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How shifty Sunak was caught out over Eat Out To Help Out
The PM’s Covid inquiry testimony foundered on his basic inability to do politics well
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All hail Nigel the Third, if we really must
The former Ukip leader made it to the I'm A Celebrity final but failed to wear the crown
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Jungle viewers get full outline of Farage’s Windsor Framework
As I'm A Celebrity draws to a close the former Ukip leader donned his spandex shorts
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The Turing Scheme is no replacement for Erasmus
The Young European Movement has launched a campaign urging the UK government to rejoin the EU’s study-abroad project
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Farage ‘biggest name the European Parliament’s ever had’, declares Farage
The former Ukip presenter ruminated on his place in history in the I'm A Celebrity jungle
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What the destruction of Banksy’s Brexit mural says about modern Britain
The artwork, worth £1.4m has been taken down in Leave-supporting Dover
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Christmas drinks just got more expensive, thanks to Brexit
Industry experts are warning that wines are ‘up £3 a bottle’ since the UK’s departure from the bloc
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‘Just the rich can do it’: research shows how immigration income requirements devastate families
The government's new proposals will be devastating
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Farage gets embroiled in burnt rice row
The former Ukip leader got into a argument over who was responsible for ruining some rice
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Boris Johnson’s failure to grasp basic maths cost hundreds – maybe thousands – of lives
People paid a big price for the ex-PM’s perennial ignorance, while he gets off scot-free
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The confident nonsense of Boris Johnson
The former PM produced nothing but blather at the Covid inquiry
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Jungle Farage poleaxed by a pineapple
A day after his karaoke antics the former Ukip leader was quizzed on Brexit by his campmates
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Braverman’s lukewarm revenge
A resignation speech by a former home secretary who didn’t resign, and a Prime Minister’s Questions for a PM who is barely in charge – welcome to another day of government dysfunction in Westminster
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Starmer has lost it on Brexit
Being “Tory Lite” will do him no favours at the next election
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Johnson at the Covid Inquiry – what happened this morning
It was a disaster for Johnson, and revealed the complete dysfunction at the heart of his government
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The Guardian’s in-house Brexit apologist
Why does the newspaper continue to publish Larry Elliot’s Corbynite nonsense on the EU?
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Why does the right hate lawyers?
Our legal system is one of the few remaining checks holding government to account - no wonder pundits and politicians attack it
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Farage loses his shirt in the jungle
After three weeks of enforced abstinence, a half-pint of Flamin’ Gallah appeared to go straight to the former Ukip leader’s head as he took to the karaoke machine
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The Sound of Starmer: the Labour leader’s Ode to Beethoven
The Labour leader’s love of EU anthem Ode to Joy has caused faux outrage.. and hopes that he might just
be a Rejoiner after all
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Everyday philosophy: The beauty of swearing
Philosophers have rarely written about swearing - until now
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The Covid inquiry is, finally, giving us the chance to be world-beating
Boris Johnson’s bluster and Partygate brought national shame. But the Covid inquiry is a source of national pride