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Keir Starmer's David dilemma: Lammy, Cameron or Miliband?

David Lammy has taken many political shapes in his long career. He’s one of the few members of the Shadow Cabinet who can remember life in a...

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Isabel Hardman

Inflation falls and yet again the boomers are winning

Inflation is coming down, with the Consumer Price Index at 3.2 per cent, and that’s good. It will come down further this summer, probably to the...

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Hamish Mcrae

Nigel Farage is the worst of us, but he has a right to speak

There are two good rules-of-thumb when you’re defending liberal democracy against populists. The first is to stand by your principles. And the...

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Ian Dunt

Lefties like me have become fair game, so let me explain three things

On Monday, the charmless Liz Truss told the LBC radio host Iain Dale that those with left-wing beliefs were “smearing her” by blaming her for...

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Laughing at Liz Truss only proves her point: Westminster has stopped listening

Liz Truss has refused to rule out having another go at leading the Conservative Party, which has sent most of Westminster into a fit of pique or...

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Kate Mccann

Call the violent targeting of women what it is: a terror attack

On 6 December, 1989, a gunman walked into a classroom at the École Polytechnique, part of the University of Montreal, and ordered the nine women...

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Kate Maltby

I've accidentally gone on strike from sex, men, marriage and kids

In South Korea, thousands of women have decided to opt out of dealing with men entirely. They are refusing to marry (bihon), have children...

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Kate Lister

The deaths of three trans teens expose the state of youth mental health provision

Jason Pulman was the oldest of five children, a talented artist who ‘‘loved all the silliness in the world and using it to make all those around...

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Ian Birrell

David Cameron’s message on Iran has the best chance of being heard

The world had good reason to be thankful for the RAF this weekend – not for the first time. British jets took to the skies over Iraq and Syria in...

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Mark Wallace

The smoking ban vote shows just how divided the Tories are

The Prime Minister is often described as a passionless political creature – a technocrat who can juggle spreadsheet numbers and sift to game the...

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Anne Mcelvoy

Liz Truss isn't done yet

Ask a politician what feelings they most hope to garner from the public and you would get a smorgasbord of answers. “Hope” would come up often,...

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Ben Kentish

I regret not telling my friend I'd fallen for them - but not for the reasons you'd think

Love, in the words of Shakespeare’s Romeo “is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn”. In some cases, it is...

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Kuba Shand-Baptiste

I’ve found the key to happiness and it starts with low expectations

Bryan Johnson, for those of you who have not yet had the pleasure, is a multimillionaire biohacker who has amassed hundreds of thousands of...

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Lucy Mangan

Iran's attack on Israel shows Gaza will inevitably become a wider war

The Iranian missile attack on Israel has escalated the crisis in the Middle East close to an all-out regional war, much depending on how Israel...

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Patrick Cockburn

The danger of an escalating Middle East conflict grows by the day

Iran and Israel are exchanging punch and counter-punch as the wider world waits to see if there is to be another round of hostilities between the...

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Patrick Cockburn

Rachel Riley and Julia Hartley-Brewer mistook free speech for the right to rant

“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath...

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Simon Kelner

Disabled people are paying for the failure of universal credit

The UK Government is committing “grave and systematic” violations of disabled people’s rights. That was the verdict of the UN’s Special...

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Andrew Fisher

I’m fighting to improve my kids’ attention spans (and, yes, it involves CBBC)

There’s one complaint I hear a lot from my parent mates: the ever-shortening attention spans of their kids. What with advancements in technology,...

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Charlene White

A new generation of MPs is just what Westminster needs

Whatever happens at the next election, one thing is guaranteed. There are going to be a lot of new MPs in Parliament. So far, 100 have said they...

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Isabel Hardman

Starmer and Sunak are struggling to cope with Israel-Iran escalation

The hostile relationship between Iran and Israel is a cauldron which, when it boils over, poses a grave escalation threat across the Middle East....

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Anne Mcelvoy

We don't need Liz Truss's book when our bills still show the consequences

The definition of chutzpah is “extreme self-confidence or audacity”. Helpfully, dictionaries often include an exemplar alongside definitions to...

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Stefano Hatfield

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