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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The Queen deserves better than Boris Johnson
His shtick and clowning around is an affront to her life and service
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Mail men head for the bunkers
A trip to Portugal for veterans of the Daily Mail was more like an episode of Last of the Summer Wine
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Davey dividend would be small change for Clegg
A rise in net worth for the Lib Dem leader's consultancy pales in comparison with his predecessor's fortune
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May thinks revenge a dish best served cold
The former prime minister may be planning the coup de grâce to the successor whose name she can't bear to hear
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Don’t be fooled by this temporary reprieve, Johnson is toast
Tory MPs know, deep down, the prime minister is finished, and not a moment too soon
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Legally Blonde bites back at Quentin Letts review
His review of Legally Blonde made it clear he wasn’t pleased about the casting of “fuller-bodied, nonbinary actors”
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Dominic Cummings can’t keep his mouth shut
When it comes to gossiping about Carrie Johnson, Cummings isn't tight-lipped
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Carrie faces a PR challenge
There is an ongoing inquiry into the running of The Aspinall Foundation, who Carrie works for when she's not organising “strategy meetings” in Downing Street
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Boris Johnson’s hollow crown
The prime minister is the Richard II of modern politics - and he must learn the bitter lessons of the 14th-century monarch
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A costly, inhumane ploy to appease the far right
How will the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda help a single UK family struggling in the cost of living crisis?
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Peter Handke: Literary genius or lunatic genocide denier?
Jeton Neziraj’s new play explores the lesser-known side of Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke
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A fair, low-work UK needs Universal Basic Income
As Andy Burnham has been recently saying, UBI is a nettle that Labour should grasp, suggests one reader
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How Johnson became Nixon’s heir
There are unmistakable echoes of the Watergate president in Boris Johnson’s Partygate defence
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The farmer suing a German energy giant for melting a glacier on the other side of the world
In a climate change landmark case, a quiet Peruvian mountain guide and farmer is taking on a German company over its role in melting the Palcaraju glacier
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Earth’s last rays of hope?
Emissions and temperatures continue to rise, leading to increasingly radical research into limiting climate change. But are they safe?
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Notre-Dame after the fire
The world watched Paris’s greatest treasure burn. Two years on, restoration is beginning in earnest
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The UK car industry is on the road to nowhere
No Single Market access and a struggle to develop EV batteries mean an uncertain future for the once-great British car industry
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Trans children are suffering because of the government’s cowardice
The government are too afraid to challenge adults’ belief systems. This is pure cruelty
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Germansplaining: How the Bundestag became bloated
Germany’s latest general elections brought about hyper-expansive change to parliament... literally
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Everyday Philosophy: Why one swallow doesn’t make a summer
Swallows can't exactly reflect on their actions. We, however, can think about if we're actually acting virtuously or not
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How the royals survived
The Queen has managed a balancing act for 70 years and the Platinum Jubilee is yet another milestone in it
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‘There is a kind of hatred of Europeans from Boris Johnson and his government’
Former French ambassador to London Sylvie Bermann on Brexit’s aftershocks and the battles still to come with Macron and the EU
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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: How Boris Johnson became an accidental fascist
The prime minister wasn't born a fascist. But his incompetence and desperation to survive is certainly driving him in that direction
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The Partygate playlist… The sinner takes it all
Comedian MITCH BENN on the songs that could've accompanied the ‘Abba-themed’ party at Downing Street
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The state needs to take charge of the climate catastrophe we’re facing
Instead, the conservative government’s panicked U-turn on the windfall tax does the opposite
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Are you celebrating the jubilee?
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Matt Hancock’s enjoying the good life
Hancock’s somewhat modest outside earnings haven't stopped him enjoying life with the woman he found it so difficult to socially distance from during lockdown
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Has the paper review slot had its day?
These days reviewers are rarely journalists but individuals with axes to grind
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Sir Bill Wiggin doesn’t feel the pinch
The old Etonian has been left unscathed by the cost-of-living crisis
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Is Michael Gove eyeing up Number 10?
The levelling up minister may have, finally, come out in support of the prime minister, but he’s also just accepted his first donation since 2021
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Boris Johnson’s been living it up for years
Back in 2019, a source told MANDRAKE that the prime minister started work late, looked dishevelled and treated the Downing Street flat like “student digs”