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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...

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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...

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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...

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