The Tories’ response to Covid in March 2020 was chaotic and indecisive, according to the official report on the issue. The Guardian notes: “Too little
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There is a sentence in The Lancet’s new series on ultra-processed foods (UPFs), published this week, that makes clear exactly what the issue with them
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Across the West, governments are failing. Trump, Starmer, Macron, Merz and others are losing authority at the very moment crises demand leadership. Far-right movements are
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I have already posted once this morning on hate-fuelled politics. I have to do so again. The Telegraph has reported Reform’s hate-fuelled Budget proposals, about
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Labour’s Shabana Mahmood MP, who is our Home Secretary, ramped up her hate-fuelled campaign against migrants yesterday. Refugees will no longer get an automatic permanent
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Can you imagine Donald Trump staying in office for another three years, given the very obvious crises facing his presidency? I can’t. Epstein is going
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As the FT notes today, in another excellent article by John Burns-Murdoch: In the UK [the number of] … young people who are increasingly disengaged
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Is there a coup underway at the BBC? When journalists are punished for minor mistakes while truth-tellers are silenced, that’s not accountability — that’s control.
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Is there a coup going on at the BBC, as many of its staff suggested in a meeting yesterday? Of course there is. Not only
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