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David Lammy: The Tories a dead party walking

TIM WALKER talks to Labour MP David Lammy about what he expects to happen later this year, when the full force of Brexit hits the UK. The final descent towards Brexit has begun: safety belts are tightened and prudent passengers are in brace position. At some point in the autumn, as David Lammy warns, the […]

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The year that will decide our future: How the law will hold the government to account

Campaigner Gina Miller tells TIM WALKER about her latest legal challenge to the government, and why the law still offers the best hope of holding it to account. ‘The Brextremists are calling for Theresa May to go full steam ahead, but that’s actually the last thing we want now,’ says Gina Miller. ‘We’re heading into […]

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David Baddiel: ‘Social media is a gift to people like Farage’

When stand-up, fantasy football fanatic and novelist David Baddiel first became famous hecklers were in the audience. Now, talking to NATHANIEL TAPLEY, he explains how trolls have become a new, nastier version of the loud-mouth in the crowd One of the things I remember best about being young during the 1990s was our attempts to […]

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‘I have no choice but to become French.. Britain after Brexit is no longer my country’

Alex Taylor, a British broadcaster working in France, was so angered by Brexit he decided to become French, a process which ended in a ceremony at the country’s Pantheon. Vanity Fair’s MARION VAN RENTERGHEM was there to watch it happen One day, earlier this autumn, Alex Taylor entered the Pantheon, in Paris. This is not […]

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Still seething: Poetry’s Mr Angry on a nation divided

Britain’s unofficial poet laureate Tony Harrison tells ANTHONY CLAVANE about how the divisions exposed by his landmark poem, V, are as raw now as ever They say you should never meet your heroes. It is even less advisable, perhaps, to chair a question-and-answer session with them in a beautiful church after they have just declared […]

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‘The Cabinet are stitching up Brexit… They want us left in dark’

Few MPs have banged the drum against Brexit more consistently than David Lammy. He tells EMMA JONES why there is still so much to fight for When I meet David Lammy in his office in Westminster he has just delivered a letter to David Davis, signed by more than 120 politicians, demanding he publish his […]

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Doreen Lawrence: 25 years on – ‘Brexit gave people permission to be racist’

Since the murder of her son Stephen, Doreen Lawrence has fought for justice and racial harmony. EMMA JONES hears what she thinks Britain still needs to do to combat discrimination. It is almost 25 years since Stephen Lawrence was murdered in south east London in a sickening racist attack. He would now be 43. Now […]