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Martin Ivens

Chicago Tribune

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Starmer Is Being Haunted by a Ghost From Britain's Past

08.03.2026 0

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Martin Ivens

A Stumbling UK Economy Is Adding to Starmer’s Woes

Keir Starmer’s worst week in office wasn’t improved by the news that the UK economy grew by a feeble 0.1% in the final quarter of 2025, half what...

16.02.2026 30

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Starmer Is Cursed With the Reverse Midas Touch

19.01.2026 30

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Britain Is Getting Bullied by France, America and Tiny Mauritius

22.12.2025 10

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Can Rachel Reeves Survive a Second Tax-Raising Budget?

25.11.2025 4

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The Labour Party’s Coming Tax Raid Won't Be Its Last

10.11.2025 4

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Keir Starmer Is Hearing Voices From Political Valhalla

01.09.2025 10

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A Wealth Tax Would Signal Britain Is Closed for Business

12.07.2025 10

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Britain’s Labour Party Needs to Listen to Its Social Conscience

22.06.2025 10

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Keir Starmer’s Immigration Pledges Ring Hollow

13.05.2025 10

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UK Election Losses Pave the Way for a Tony Blair Masterclass

03.05.2025 10

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The Tory Party Faces an Election Drubbing of Its Own Making

27.04.2025 3

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Keir Starmer’s Machiavellian Fixer Walks a Fine Line

15.02.2025 7

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Keir Starmer's a Lawyer. The UK Needs a Leader.

09.02.2025 9

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Rachel Reeves Is Safe as UK Chancellor — at Least for Now

To lay down a chancellor’s life to save your own is a grave step for any UK prime minister to take. When times are good, chancellors can be...

21.01.2025 5

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Keir Starmer Needs a More Modern Approach to Elon Musk’s Attacks

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is making the running in UK politics and the establishment can't stop him. To understand Musk’s impact,...

12.01.2025 8

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Labour's Education Agenda Smacks of Pettiness

One of Labour’s intellectual lodestars George Bernard Shaw wrote that “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some...

04.01.2025 10

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Musk Shouldn't Be Allowed to Toy With Britain's Democracy

By putting London’s lawyers, accountants and PR consultants at the service of global kleptocrats, the UK earned an unwholesome reputation as...

23.12.2024 10

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Putin’s Loss in Syria Exposes Western Failures

The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s “murderous regime” in Syria this week was celebrated with Churchillian bombast by Foreign Secretary David Lammy in...

15.12.2024 5

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