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Gaby Hinsliff

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Axel Rudakubana walked a long path to murder. At what point could he have been stopped?

Axel Rudakubana walked a long path to murder. At what point could he have been stopped?
24.01.2025 20

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Gaby Hinsliff

The nightmare begins. But by holding its nerve, the world can weather President Trump

The nightmare begins. But by holding its nerve, the world can weather President Trump
21.01.2025 10

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Gaby Hinsliff

An interesting speech full of hard truths? Kemi Badenoch is clearly rattled

An interesting speech full of hard truths? Kemi Badenoch is clearly rattled
17.01.2025 30

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Loved ones mourn Kelyan Bokassa, the 14-year-old boy killed on a London bus. And we all have some thinking to do

Loved ones mourn Kelyan Bokassa, the 14-year-old boy killed on a London bus. And we all have some thinking to do
10.01.2025 10

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I saw first-hand how the grooming scandal is being weaponised. This is what Starmer must do

“Sophie” was 12 years old when she walked into Oldham police station to report a sexual assault. For a vulnerable child, first befriended and...

06.01.2025 8

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The death of the middle-class professional spells danger for Labour

What does it mean to have a middle-class, white-collar professional job? It used to feel like a promise, a guarantee of a life that might not...

02.01.2025 1

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My family call it Old Lady Clubbing, but my giddy ‘nights out’ have lit up a dismal 2024

Last Saturday night, I went clubbing with friends. Once upon a time, this wouldn’t have been a remotely odd sentence to type, because it was what...

27.12.2024 3

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Storm Darragh showed me how unprepared my family – and Britain – are for disaster

It was the cold that woke me up. Some time in the early hours of Saturday, as Storm Darragh blasted through our bit of rural Oxfordshire, the power...

10.12.2024 20

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Starmer has hit a pothole on the road to net zero and he should be honest: there will be necessary pain

Have cake, will eat. For years it has been the default political response to awkward questions about the climate crisis, with successive...

29.11.2024 6

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Ignore the online CV truthers. If anything, Rachel Reeves is overqualified to be UK chancellor

Rachel Reeves is not for turning. She won’t be pushed around, knocked off course, undermined by backbench mutterings or criticism from the...

26.11.2024 7

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Kind, belligerent, and the man all sides trusted: that’s the John Prescott I knew

Without him, it could all so easily have fallen apart. There are vanishingly few politicians of any era of whom that’s true, but John Prescott was...

21.11.2024 4

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The exodus from X to Bluesky has happened – the era of mass social media platforms is over

Hell is other people. Or, more specifically, other people on social media. Hell is millions of people who would avoid each other like the plague if...

15.11.2024 100

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Why on earth do the rich keep bankrolling Prince Andrew?

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a fortune is usually dead keen to throw it at Prince Andrew. Because they keep...

11.11.2024 10

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Kids these days have it easy! So what we need to do is ban them from talking to each other on the internet

08.11.2024 60

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It is galling to see Starmer ingratiate himself with Trump – but it would be horribly negligent if he didn’t

Dawn had barely broken, and nor had Kamala Harris publicly conceded, when Keir Starmer tweeted his congratulations to the not-quite-officially...

08.11.2024 40

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Jenrick’s Southport comments mark a new low. That matters for us all, not just the Tory party

Nigel Farage has an echo. A rather tinny one, admittedly, but it’s uncanny all the same. Whatever he says, somewhere from the cavernous depths of...

31.10.2024 2

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Are you a working person or a fat cat? You’ll find out in this week’s budget

Workers of the world, unite. Nothing’s too good for the workers. You know what it means, instantly, when you see “worker” in a phrase like that...

29.10.2024 4

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Armed police have a dangerous job, but that doesn’t mean they should be less accountable

Dalian Atkinson was a gifted Premier League footballer in his youth. But by the summer afternoon that he died, he was a vulnerable man in the...

24.10.2024 10

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Why can’t politics in the UK or US get to grips with Taylor Swift? Because she is a force in her own right

When people say that music can change the world, they don’t usually mean songs that capture with bright, sharp intimacy how girls feel. They mean...

21.10.2024 4

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It’s been 100 first days of woe but Keir Starmer should take heart, Tony Blair’s weren’t a picnic either

And on the hundredth day, he rested. The prime minister marked the passing of this crucial milestone for his young government by jetting off to an...

13.10.2024 5

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Canada is showing that it’s possible to have universal, affordable childcare. Is the UK brave enough to follow?

You can’t get much for £5.50 nowadays. A takeaway coffee and a muffin, maybe; a pint and a packet of crisps, outside London. But in parts of...

11.10.2024 10

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Yes, Andrew Tate is a misogynist, but his real game is exploiting men’s vulnerabilities for cash

There is one scene in Demi Moore’s new film, The Substance, that made the actor cry, and it’s a scene about self-loathing. Getting ready for a...

04.10.2024 5

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Rosie Duffield’s savage departure raises difficult questions for Keir Starmer. He’d be foolish to ignore them

Rosie Duffield never dreamed, she insists, that she would end up leaving the Labour party. And how lucky for her, in some ways, if she genuinely...

01.10.2024 20

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Why are so many people in Britain off sick? The answer is far more complex than you think

Jamie used to love his job. Working as a hospital porter, helping sick people in need, he probably never expected to become a patient himself: at...

27.09.2024 30

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The early release of prisoners was unavoidable, but too many women in the UK are now living in fear

When darkness falls, it’s time to bolt the doors. Check the windows, test the locks; circle the house, then anxiously check all over again. The...

13.09.2024 4

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Elle Macpherson’s junk ‘cures’ for cancer are only likely to cause women more agony

Elle Macpherson believes, for some reason, that disease thrives in an acidic body. The Australian ex-supermodel swears by the benefits of limiting...

06.09.2024 30

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We wanted a serious government: now we have one. But a little Rayner-like joy wouldn’t go amiss

Sometimes it’s the little things that matter. An unexpected kindness, a burst of late summer sunshine, a cheerful snippet of news; things that...

03.09.2024 10

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Sorry, Labour, but ChatGPT teachers are a lesson in how not to transform our schools

Like so many shiny-eyed new teachers, Ed began his career amid high hopes. He was going to be a gamechanger, his bosses thought; a breath of fresh...

29.08.2024 3

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Welcome to the Liz Truss school of free speech: you can criticise anyone – except her

Look, it’s not funny. I don’t know why you’re all sniggering at the back because – seriously now! – it’s not funny. Or big. Or clever....

16.08.2024 80

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The shrunken state expects families to fill the voids in health and social care. Woe betide those without children

It was visiting time at the hospital, and the corridors were full of dutiful middle-aged sons and daughters. The woman who held the ward door open...

09.08.2024 40

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I fear books are going the way of vinyl records – a rarified pursuit for hobbyists

Summertime, and the reading is easy. Or at least, it’s supposed to be. Holidays were made for sinking blissfully into a pile of books: for long,...

06.08.2024 30

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The grifters behind the Southport riot are only getting started – and they have a voice in parliament

They started coming almost as the new day dawned, bringing brooms and buckets, trays of drinks or just goodwill. The rubble was swept from...

02.08.2024 40

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Why is violence against women only getting worse? The answer doesn’t lie with Andrew Tate

Natalie Fleet was only 15 when she got pregnant by an older man. At the time, she says she didn’t really know how to describe what was happening;...

26.07.2024 50

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