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Dirty dossier could see heads roll at Tory HQ
A botched character assassination could be a source of embarrassment to the Conservatives and their friends in the media
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Iain Dale and Zac Goldsmith may be switching sides. Is the country next?
The Tories are losing their loyalists and they’re running straight into Labour’s arms
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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Brexiteers won’t talk about the B-word
If Brexit was going well, we would never hear the end of it. Instead, there's an omertà on the subject
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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: We have not had a serious media in the UK for years
Instead, we have dumbed-down political and commercial interests masquerading as purveyors of news, lurching from one spasm to another
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Amsterdam, the city of the free press
The Dutch capital became a safe haven for threatened journalists after the dark days of the war. Today, their legacy remains
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Ed Davey’s unfortunate calendar mishap
The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street
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Germansplaining: Berlin’s Lioness made me miss the silly season
I yearn for the days when the news took a proper summer break and non-news would entertain us
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What the Sun did was wrong. Huw Edwards’ abuse of power is wrong too
When the powerful cluster to protect one of their own, faith in justice suffers. And all we know for sure is that justice has yet to be done
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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The Tories’ silence on the climate crisis says it all
Across Europe, only Turkey has a higher respiratory death rate than the UK, but the government doesn’t appear to care
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The right’s new dangerous dog-whistler knows nothing about Britishness
Alex Phillips believes London isn’t British anymore. Her justification should concern us all
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Brexit has been bad business for Lord Rothermere
The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street
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How the Tory press held Britain to ransom
The UK’s right-leaning newspapers are less influential than ever, and most will always loathe Labour. So why is Keir Starmer trying to court them?
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Will Murdoch snap up the Spectator?
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The Telegraph could be in the bargain basement
The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street
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The New European’s new podcast has launched
The Two Matts, featuring Matt Kelly and Matt d'Ancona, commences this week
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The gutter Express, the paper that brought us Brexit
The scale of the disaster it helped to create is becoming clearer, but this cheerleading newspaper remains upbeat
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Birth of a catastrophe: How the seeds of Brexit were sown in the 1960s
One of Britain’s leading historians explains how the roots of the decision taken seven years ago were laid decades before that
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Oakeshott and Tice, the gruesome twosome of the right
Isabel Oakeshott and Richard Tice rose to the top of the culture war pile through charm and ruthlessness. What will they do next?
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Post Johnson, the battle to reassert the value of truth is the fight of our times
We are living in an alternate political universe and it’s going to be a bumpy ride back
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Are Labour ready for the venom that will be flung at them in office?
Every mistake Labour makes will be woven into a systematic story of hate
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Bard for life: The tragedy of Boris the First (or The Comedy of Errors)
Does self-styled Shakesperean hero Boris Johnson’s new vocation as a Daily Mail columnist suggest misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows...?
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Buyer’s remorse over the Daily Mail’s new hire, Boris Johnson
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The decline and fall of the Daily Telegraph
A profitable and once-respected newspaper has collapsed into family scandal and culture war extremism
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Does the Mail have more trouble in store for Sunak’s government?
The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street
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Why does Starmer want to make Brexit work?
The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street
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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Hands up if you think Brexit has failed
Seven years on, populist politicians are running out of targets for their Brexit blame game
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The benefits of Tom Tugendhat’s expedience
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Life isn’t nice, and that’s why Succession is the best TV show ever
Decades from now, this once-in-a-lifetime series will still be watched as a cultural artefact of a particular moment in history
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The very English city that isn’t
Bath has been deemed a hotbed of our country’s elitism. That’s all well and good, but the city’s roots are anything but English
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A party right on the edge
The recent National Conservatism conference highlighted the threat of the far-right and the polarisation within the Tory Party itself
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My obsession with Adrian Chiles’ column
I’d like to enjoy his Guardian writings, but there’s one small thing getting in the way
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The war the Eurovision rules could not silence
As Russian rockets rained down on Ukraine, the contest’s political genie was finally let out of the bottle