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Labour is defiant against public anger – but we can't go on like this

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Hugo Gye

Sorry, Gary, but this time I can’t defend the indefensible 

In an interview last month, Gary Lineker was asked whether it was within his remit, as someone bound by BBC rules on impartiality, to offer his...

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Simon Kelner

Rachel Reeves has a plan for your pension - and it could reduce its value

This is Armchair Economics with Hamish McRae, a subscriber-only newsletter from The i Paper. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every...

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Hamish Mcrae

Trump is getting fed up with Putin – not that the Russian President cares

This Ukraine peace summit has not yet turned into the spectacular win Donald Trump hoped for. While Volodymyr Zelensky has travelled to Turkey, as...

yesterday 2

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Adam Boulton

Starmer wants to cut benefits, but he'll slash his majority too

On paper, Sir Keir Starmer has a rock-solid working majority of 165 seats. In reality, it could crumble more easily than anyone in the Labour Party...

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Kitty Donaldson

American democracy may not recover from the Joe Biden cover up

It was pitched as an election with the very future of democracy in the United States at stake. And, who knows, with the mercurial nature of Donald...

yesterday 2

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Alison Phillips

Pity Farage and Starmer, the real 'strangers' on this inclusive island

I gave birth to my daughter when I was 43, a miracle of sorts. After two miscarriages, we had lost hope. I was too old, the doctor said. Then she...

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Even Maga is losing patience with Trump

Donald Trump doesn’t care what people like me think of him – I am a liberal journalist, and even worse, not an American. Upsetting people like me...

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James Ball

I don’t care who comes to the Cotswolds – as long as property prices keep going up

I live in a small village in West Oxfordshire. It is technically on the edge of the Cotswolds, but that would be a distinction which no self-...

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Simon Kelner

Free speech is fine – until of course someone says they support Brexit

Should I be nervous about the contents of my bookshelves? It seems they might be something the police believe to be of legitimate investigatory...

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Mark Wallace

I followed a 1930s guide for women living alone - it was a revelation

I have lived by myself for the last 12 years, and although I am well aware of the sympathetic head cock this can provoke in some people, my...

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Kate Lister

Brits avoid the jobs migrants are doing - and I have the proof

Immigration crackdowns are like those portraits above the 10 Downing Street staircase: every prime minister has one. You would need to go back many...

tuesday 4

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Ben Kentish

There are no longer any excuses to listen to Kanye West

“I’m stunned,” my friend texted me as a snippet of a new Kanye West song dropped online. She didn’t mean it in a positive way. On Thursday, the...

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Zing Tsjeng

Apeing the language of the far right costs Starmer his credibility

Why does Keir Starmer suddenly sound like an odd agglomeration of verbal data-scraping from right-wing websites, with a flourish of AI-generated...

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Anne Mcelvoy

The most dangerous thing about Donald Trump is his attention span

Donald Trump likes shiny things. Sadly, they don’t retain his attention. Readers may remember Trump’s last presidential visit to Saudi Arabia,...

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Kate Maltby

Here comes the boldest change to immigration in decades - and the riskiest

It’s a sign of the times that a party whose leadership hails from the realms of human rights lawyers and Labour centrists is about to undertake a...

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Anne Mcelvoy

Starmer is as bad as those who came before him. What a bitter disappointment

What a depressing day. This morning, Keir Starmer made it clear that he would be just as bad on immigration as the prime ministers who came before...

12.05.2025 3

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Ian Dunt

This book can help parents teach their kids about sex - and it's 50 years old

Years ago a friend of mine working as a teacher in a large, mixed comprehensive drew the short straw and had to take one of the pubescent year...

12.05.2025 1

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Lucy Mangan

The Murdoch empire could soon be in serious trouble

Donald Trump’s relentless and multi-pronged assault on the news industry will have lasting consequences for American society and could decide the...

12.05.2025 4

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Ian Burrell

Just admit it, Keir - this is all about Farage

In line with his predecessors, Sir Keir Starmer framed his tough new immigration policy as advantageous for all, asserting that reduced numbers...

12.05.2025 3

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Kitty Donaldson