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The Ben Roberts-Smith war crimes scandal shows why powerful armies fail

This is Dispatches with Patrick Cockburn, a subscriber-only newsletter from i. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every single...

yesterday 6

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Patrick Cockburn

Who will succeed Rishi Sunak? Tories are already jostling for position as election defeat looms

Steve Barclay up. Kemi Badenoch down. Suella Braverman? She’s alienating colleagues. This is not a commentary on a full-blown leadership contest....

yesterday 3

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Katy Balls

My husband is trying to lose weight. Watching how a man diets is astounding

My husband, after a number of months complaining that I had kept shrinking his clothes in the wash, has – uncharacteristically and I suspect for...

yesterday 5

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Lucy Mangan

Rishi Sunak’s secrecy over the Covid inquiry makes it look like there’s something to hide

In his play Privacy nearly a decade ago, writer James Graham highlighted controversial claims that US and UK intelligence services were secretly...

previous day 1

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Paul Waugh

Rishi Sunak is hiding behind Boris in the Covid inquiry. Funny that

Good afternoon. The world still turns, your heart still beats, and we’re in the first flush of summer. Make the most of it. Yesterday’s decision...

previous day 1

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Ian Dunt

The Government has launched a free speech war against itself

Let me take you on a journey to Britain, 2025. The Oxford Union plans to debate the Kate Moss mantra: “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”...

previous day 1

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Kate Maltby

The 'benefit scrounger' narrative is back because Tories need someone to blame for their mess

Malcolm X famously warned, “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people...

previous day 1

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Andrew Fisher

Few people pay inheritance tax - but it's still a tricky topic for Labour

As optics go, it wasn’t a great start. A new campaign calling for the abolition of inheritance tax was fronted yesterday by none other than...

thursday 3

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Paul Waugh

By stepping away from mental health care, the Met Police has made a case for its own defunding

Three short years ago, anguish over the murder of another black person at the hands of the police rang out loud enough to reach UK shores. With...

thursday 20

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Kuba Shand-Baptiste

Boris Johnson's Whatsapp messages could be the best part of summer 2023

It’s a matter of public record (sort of) that the best summer in the UK for the last thousand years was summer 2018. But – and I don’t want...

thursday 2

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Rebecca Reid

Windrush Day will always be a bittersweet anniversary

This is In Conversation with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, a subscriber-only newsletter from i. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every...

thursday 1

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

If he runs for President, Mike Pence could help put Donald Trump in the White House

Mike Pence is poised to enter the presidential race on 7 June with a speech in Des Moines, Iowa. This is bad news for Trump’s arch-rival, Florida...

thursday 1

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Michael Day

Could Steve Barclay be the next Tory leader? Stranger things have happened

When the ConservativeHome website published its monthly survey of Tory members’ views of the Cabinet this week, it seemed it’s not only the public...

31.05.2023 1

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Paul Waugh

Brexit is collapsing and Britain is drifting back to Europe

On the face of it, it’s just another head-in-hands endorsement of Brexit by the Leader of the Opposition. Writing in the Express on Wednesday...

31.05.2023 5

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Ian Dunt

The new Tory tribes reveal the crisis at the heart of Conservatism

Last summer, Janan Ganesh, a Financial Times columnist of South Asian descent, wrote about British frivolity and bad politics. Outsiders, he wrote,...

31.05.2023 1

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

The Conservatives have fallen for the price fixing fallacy that almost obliterated the Romans

The Romans dabbled with a surprising number of economic policy mistakes that are still burning politicians’ fingers many centuries later. Students...

30.05.2023 2

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Mark Wallace

Millennials warmed to Rishi Sunak but polling suggests they won’t vote for him at the election

When Rishi Sunak visits Joe Biden next week, more than a few of his entourage will look on enviously at the sheer depth and breadth of the power of...

30.05.2023 1

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Paul Waugh

I’m paying £500 a month on my student loan when I should be saving for childcare or retirement

I recently received an unexpected email from the Student Loans Company (SLC). It said that 13 years after I graduated, I have nearly paid off the...

30.05.2023 1

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Vicky Spratt

From Turkey and Russia to Uganda and the US, LGBT lives are at risk - and it's getting worse

In Turkey on Monday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued attacking the LGBT community even in his presidential victory speech. This is a group he has...

30.05.2023 3

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Michael Day

MDMA could soon be a medicine - it would be groundbreaking for those with depression

On Monday at Hay Festival, the Government’s former Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, suggested that MDMA should be seriously studied...

30.05.2023 1

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Professor David Nutt

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