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Keir Starmer pledged no tax rises for working people, yet that’s impossible. Unless, of course, he drops his red lines on the single market and customs union

How a biographer’s aside, the Mail’s performative outrage and the BBC’s cowardice led to a media storm over a portrait of Mrs Thatcher

Replacing unfair, outdated levies with taxes based on land value would benefit 77% of us and help the country level up

Predictably, the right wing paper has gone back on its promise to stop obsessing about immigration

Fusion won’t arrive soon enough to solve global warming but it could become a commercial reality in the second half of the century

The idea of a Trump victory that forces Ukraine to settle with Putin is too vile to contemplate

Our armed forces are not fit for purpose. Here’s how to fix them

During a recent book event with school children in Glasgow, the issue didn't register highly on their radar

If Rachel Reeves wants to be a truly reforming chancellor, she should embrace a more radical approach to accounting

Many of us are hoping the prime minister's policy doesn't stray from pragmatic to heavy-handed

I may not be a fan of Oasis, but people’s excitement about their reunion is infectious

Siena’s chaotic horse race is over in a minute and a half, but the plotting goes on all year round

Without a dominant culture, it appears everyone can fit in in Brussels

With so many plates spinning, John Swinney must now hope they don’t all come crashing down

The country has seen months of increasing political tensions paired with rising temperatures

Dani Karavan's Passages honours the memory of Walter Benjamin, who took his own life in Portbou when faced with being handed over to the Gestapo

After 25 years, our diarist lays to rest the nation’s most feared and revered diary column

Unless we act now, it will be used in the destruction of our democracy

German voters are not becoming extremists. They are just fed up

Labour should work with the Lib Dems and Greens to help stop polarisation and public apathy

Is the prime minister serious about his EU red lines - or just playing a long game?

There is no good reason for banning cigarettes outside pubs while allowing them on the pavement next door

Political parties belong to activists as much as they do to leaders

The same tax rate for earnings and wealth would be a seismic change that raised billions

Keir Starmer’s trip to Germany and France feels empty without rejoining the scheme

Gentrification was supposed to be the beginning of an end. But if anything Brixton seems livelier than it has done for years

If you fail to see beyond the Trump lies, the chaos and narcissism, you fail to understand why people might vote for him in the first place

Launched in London by a pair of Italian brothers, the much-loved I Camisa is closing after nearly a century in Soho. Why?

No amount of slightly closer cooperation in areas of little everyday benefit can get anywhere near the massive gains from being back in the EU

Post-Brexit subsidies were supposed to save the countryside. Instead they’ve given landowners incentives to oust their tenant farmers