As the FT reports this morning: A record share of people in the UK say taxes and public spending should be cut, according to a
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The Royal speciality: creating PR disasters
I think I should make it clear when posting this copy of a Tweet that I am a member of Republic, which posted it, but
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The odds-on bet is that the royal’s days are numbered
Five days is like a decade in politics right now. Yesterday, the likelihood that the royal family will be dragged into real peril by Andrew
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Keir Starmer does not know what he believes – but has achieved his goal
The morning media coverage suggests that Keir Starmer now has only one way to survive as leader of the Labour Party. He must, apparently, finally
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The US is funding our far-right
New reporting shows the US State Department planning to fund MAGA-aligned think tanks, charities, and political movements in Europe. That includes organisations and figures linked
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One down…..one, and then maybe many more, to go
My immediate thoughts on McSweeney, posted on Twitter: I predicted this. I do think Syarmer will go. I do not think this will save Labour.
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Trump has the green light for concentration camps
In her overnight ‘Letter from an American’, Heather Cox Richardson noted: Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration’s new mass detention
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How can we maintain the right to hold the powerful to account?
There is a slight sense of being overwhelmed this morning. We have lived through a tumultuous week. Through it all, attention has been paid to
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The fight against state-sponsored fascism
The far-right has long engineered the egregious spread of its evil doctrines of exploitation and hate through the propagation of networks of NGOs and think
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