Labour’s economic tightrope
Having raised taxes and spending, Labour must now deliver improved services.
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Having raised taxes and spending, Labour must now deliver improved services.
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Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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This presidential race marks insurgent media’s supplanting of the mainstream.
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Also this week: reminiscing about print’s heyday and leaving technology at the theatre door.
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The IFS director on Rachel Reeves’s first Budget and why he’s standing down next year.
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While making international connections is important, the Prime Minister has voters at home to answer to.
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The Jeff Bezos-owned paper has refused to endorse a candidate in the US election. Plus: a boardroom battle over…
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Donald Trump’s running mate seems prepared to put his desire for power ahead of American democracy.
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If the global bloc can successfully ween itself off the US dollar, we will enter a new global order.
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Language is unravelling across the party.
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How a demagogue remade the Republican Party and transformed US politics.
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Kamala Harris’s bid for power is part of a long struggle against the politics of racism.
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After the ruin of war, Britain helped build Europe’s institutions. In an unstable world, they are once again vital…
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The enemy of Putin survived the first attempt on his life. His memoir Patriot reveals why he returned to…
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From Here to the Great Unknown – a memoir of life as Elvis’s daughter – is a story of…
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His reporting was fuelled by a cool contempt for authority.
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Her mind-expanding new novel Gliff draws battle lines between art, language and Big Tech.
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Also featuring She’s Always Hungry by Eliza Clark and Recognising the Stranger by Isabella Hammad.
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The New Statesman columnist and anarchist was a proponent of radical social change that put the most vulnerable first.
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Steve McQueen’s new film suggests the Second World War was not simply a time of uncomplicated national unity.
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How did this series, in which dastardly pensioner zombies feast on teenagers, get made?
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Half a century ago, the art-rock band introduced the world to the vocoder. Their sound – and pop music…
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“Mysteries and Miracles” explores several centuries of sacred music.
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It is difference, not excellence, that is the most enjoyable aspect of the grape.
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Ending a life must be a choice made between alternatives; not one taken because of a failure to provide…
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Here I am, writing about my shopping again: eat your heart out, Adrian Chiles.
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And I must admit: I envy them for it.
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This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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The historian and author on the inaccuracy of the latest Napoleon film, gout pills, and the joy of writing.
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