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Public opinion is changing on the idea of a Universal Basic Income. Could it solve our poverty crisis and improve productivity?

A nostalgic yearning for lost imperial power is part and parcel of the nostalgic English national imaginary

Businesses have dodged £4 billion in tax because of government incompetence

An extraordinary claim about the Brexiteer who wants to lead the Tories

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Liz Truss, Priti Patel, Robert Jenrick and more

How a once respected academic embarked on a “sad, depressing journey of radicalisation”

No, things wouldn’t have gone better if the Tories had prioritised Commonwealth trade

If Labour fails in its declared missions, the Conservatives could have another chance – but not if they veer to the right

Is free will worth the price of unspeakable acts of violence?

GB News, the populists’ TV channel, has long tiptoed on the edge. Will making excuses for thugs finally send it over?

The long road back to the EU will take years – maybe decades – to traverse. But we must make a start

Domestic football returns, full of unpredictable plotlines. But there’s one thing you can count on – the fans who make the game will continue to be exploited

It makes the country richer, culturally and economically. Now’s the time to say so

Blame this disorder on the double standard that sees Muslims branded extremists – and the far right as sensible voices to be heeded

Elon Musk allows Twitter users to fan the flames of disorder - and that may come back to burn him and them

Foreign language teaching in Britain is on the decline, which risks making the country more cut-off and inward-looking than ever before

The far right are on the streets because they no longer have allies in power

Market competition and debt-based expansion have left institutions with an uncertain future

The government says it’s levelling with us on the economy - so why not on the truth about a scheme demonised by Brexiteers?

The tetchy media dinosaur who vilified Britain’s poorest people, published the work of racists and got it wrong about Brexit and AIDS

Falling interest rates have nothing to do with Labour’s new chancellor - but she will definitely take them

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Tom Tugendhat, Robert Jenrick, Darren Grimes and more

The Death Of England is cutting-edge theatre that doesn’t care who it offends

A payment to all OAPs was unjustified and unsustainable

His ill-informed, self-aggrandising, flame-fanning Southport video is beneath contempt

Extremists who used the Southport tragedy to play on people’s prejudices should feel the consequences

How the British countryside saved modern art’s greatest champion

A term limit, rather than an age limit, is key to reforming the upper house

The time may come where they’re viewed as fellow workers, treated with respect and consideration

Rachel Reeves’s cuts come only after the previous government squandered vast sums of money

Yet another Tory leadership battle is under way. But, outside of the six contenders, does anyone really care?