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There are gaping holes in our education system that are vulnerable to exploitation by certain politicians

It’s a very Anglo-European success, boasting a German founder, Dutch name and British customers

The Tories under 100 seats, Truss and Corbyn to lose, up to 55 Lib Dem gains and more

A wave of Brexiter MPs are on the way out. Can a new generation address the elephant in the room – that Britain has changed its mind on Brexit?

Wild, unsubstantiated claims about Labour’s plans recall the worst of George Osborne

The Australian strategist has burned through any credit he had with the prime minister

Posts are aimed at left and right, with tactics that are a hallmark of Russian security

There is no real point to his Reform Party – so its leader dances ever closer to the extreme right

Labour’s leader has wasted one opportunity to reopen and win the debate. He can’t squander another

A flat script does Anna Maxwell Martin no favours either

The party shows worrying signs of not fully understanding the limits of what might be available to a country outside the club

The Secret Garden is assured and stylish

Reform’s plan is to bang on about PR throughout the next parliament. But Britain had a referendum just 13 years ago

A damning report from a California university says we are in decline and decay

Did the Gaza encampments that sprung up across British universities achieve anything?

Foreign investors are shunning Britain, and there is only one reason why

I hate tactical voting, but with the system we've got we have to use it to get Sunak out of Downing Street

A former editor says the paper’s unquestioning support allowed the Conservatives to lose perspective

The use of the word ‘hi’ as a greeting in Britain began in the early 1960s – probably influenced by American TV programmes and films

When the rest of the world looks at Britain they see a country of systemic failures, dysfunction and absurdity. But it need not be like this

Brexit is clearly the failure it was always going to be, but repairing the damage and avoiding the mistakes of the past is a long-term task

Why have we failed to invest anywhere near as much as our rivals – and what can we do to put things right?

The election might be dull, but the street art it’s inspired is anything but. And its message is: get out and vote

Betgate could join Partygate as a defining scandal of the Tories’ 14 years in power – even if Tory papers were reluctant to touch the story

Tracked down in Somerset, even Jacob Rees-Mogg admits it would be ‘ridiculous to pretend’ that he is not facing a Portillo moment on July 4

Keir Starmer is set for a landslide built on hatred of the Tories. Now he must soothe Britain’s rage – or become its next victim

There are rumours that a Labour government may try to put an end to Westminster’s drinking culture by shutting down the bars on the parliamentary estate

Unlike Nicola Sturgeon or Alex Salmond, the new SNP leader doesn’t just lack a personality cult, but a personality to form a cult around in the first place