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The city that shows devolution can work (and it's not Manchester)

The city that shows devolution can work (and it's not Manchester)

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01.08.2026 10

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An Iranian missile attack on the UK is no longer far fetched

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25.07.2026 40

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The question about Andy Burnham is how long his luck can hold

Napoleon famously said: “I would rather have a lucky general than a good general.” He would probably have approved of Andy Burnham as a lucky...

21.07.2026 10

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Pete Hegseth's crackdown will help autocracy flourish

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18.07.2026 20

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Trump looks like a mobster past his peak

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11.07.2026 40

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Trump's Iran gamble has left him with nowhere to go

Donald Trump has said that the interim agreement to end the US-Iran war is over, as the battle to control the Strait of Hormuz escalates sharply....

08.07.2026 20

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Thatcherism killed the North. Now London's reckoning is coming

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04.07.2026 30

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Britain's revolving-door of PMs is our strength, not weakness

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27.06.2026 20

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The shadowy maverick who pulled Labour's strings… and sunk Starmer

Who broke Britain? Welcome to The i Paper’s opinion series in which experts and writers debate the issues that concern them about modern Britain....

26.06.2026 30

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Trump and Netanyahu have overplayed their hand - and lost

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20.06.2026 30

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Trump and Israel want to dominate the Middle East. Now we know they have failed

15.06.2026 30

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The grim truth about where Britain is heading

13.06.2026 40

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The UK's happiest place to live has a warning for us all

11.06.2026 20

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Trump's war is failing – two blind spots have made him look absurd

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06.06.2026 30

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Putin has destroyed Russia and lost the war

In the Caribbean, the US is threatening to force regime change in Cuba, something it dared not do for nearly three quarters of a century because the...

23.05.2026 30

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The anti-Trump attack line that could stop Farage - but Starmer is too timid to say

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16.05.2026 40

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Britain is facing its Joe Biden moment

In 2024 the Democrats in the US delayed too long replacing an incapable and unpopular president Joe Biden as their presidential candidate, until the...

12.05.2026 50

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Britain has opened the door to autocracy

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09.05.2026 30

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Trump may end up restarting his war against his own wishes

The US-Iran ceasefire is disintegrating as the US claims to have broken the Iranian grip on the Strait of Hormuz, something which Iran says it will...

05.05.2026 40

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Trump's path to dictatorship is clear

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02.05.2026 40

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Trump can smell Britain’s weakness like blood in the water

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25.04.2026 30

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Trump needs this war to end - instead he is indulging in fantasy

The ceasefire in the war between the US and Israel on the one side and Iran on the other, which runs out on Wednesday, looks more fragile by the day....

20.04.2026 40

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The cataclysmic decline of Britain is a concocted fantasy

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Trump's hate-filled time machine is carrying humanity back to the dark ages

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11.04.2026 40

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Trump's grave mistake has made Iran the dominant power in the Gulf

The ceasefire in the Iran war is an admission that the US and Israel have utterly failed to achieve their goals in the conflict. They had hoped their...

08.04.2026 40

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Trump gambled on destroying Iran's regime. Instead he gave it a new life

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04.04.2026 40

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Trump has two options on Iran. One is bad – the other is worse

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Trump has made a disastrous error - and revealed just how unstable he is

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I live in Canterbury, this is what people are saying about the meningitis outbreak

As news of the meningitis outbreak spread in Canterbury over the last couple of days, the mood in the city reminded me of the first edgy days of the...

18.03.2026 50

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The country condemned to ‘financial execution’ in Trump’s war

Surprisingly, the outside world has yet to take on board that the fragile stabilisation achieved by Iraq in the wake of the 15 years of devastating...

17.03.2026 40

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Trump’s delusions have ripped open a new war zone

In the first weeks of the US-led war against Iraq in 1991, my friend Christopher Hitchens, who opposed the war, had a classic clash on US television...

14.03.2026 50

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Air strikes alone will not defeat Iran - and Trump is now trapped

US and Israeli air strikes hit 4,000 targets in the first 100 hours of its bombing campaign against Iran, with more attacks being carried out by the...

10.03.2026 50

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Trump's administration has gone full fascist

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Trump has gambled everything on Iran's collapse. It spells disaster

The US and Israeli surprise attack on Iran has had a huge early success by killing the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with...

01.03.2026 50

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Trump’s showdown with the Ayatollah will reshape the world

President Donald Trump has assembled the largest American naval armada in the Middle East since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. He is using this...

28.02.2026 60

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Donald Trump's cannabis policy is fuelling an American disaster

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14.02.2026 40

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The immorality of Britain's political class is destroying the country

07.02.2026 30

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Trump has unleashed a new war - but not the one you think

31.01.2026 40

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The pathetic underachievers fuelling Trump's cruelty

24.01.2026 40

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Europe can stop Trump – here's how

20.01.2026 40

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Putin is not the greatest threat to Europe – it's Trump

17.01.2026 60

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Trump's next move will reshape the Middle East

14.01.2026 40

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The US was a nation the world wanted to emulate – Trump has made it a pariah

10.01.2026 70

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We live in a dangerous, unstable world - and Trump is acting as its sovereign

08.01.2026 30

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Trump's global chess game is only just beginning – Europe is next

06.01.2026 30

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No country is safe after Trump's anarchy in Venezuela - global order has collapsed

04.01.2026 40

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War with Russia is coming, say our leaders - but the true horrors are forgotten

03.01.2026 50

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Trump's optimism on peace in Ukraine may look heroic – but he's dangerously wrong

29.12.2025 40

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Trump’s peace plan for the Middle East has turned it into a crucible of war

29.12.2025 30

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Trump is right about Europe - our demise is our fault

13.12.2025 30

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