Labour in the age of Trump
For Keir Starmer’s Labour government, the return of the Maga regime is a grave challenge.
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For Keir Starmer’s Labour government, the return of the Maga regime is a grave challenge.
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Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Neither security concerns nor the law matter to the new president. Do they matter to us?
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The Maga vs the tech broligarchs battle has begun.
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The Labour MP for Kensington and Bayswater on modern slavery, fighting corruption, and who owns London.
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The government is failing, the Tories are out of ideas. Welcome to Britain in 2025.
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From lagging defence spending to choosing Peter Mandelson as ambassador, the UK government is out of step with Maga.
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Also this week: Fox News wins the White House and TikTok’s fluffy image in the UK.
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A new documentary marking the 80th Holocaust Memorial Day tells the extraordinary story of the camp’s 15 orchestras.
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The political calculations that allowed the Gaza ceasefire could yet be its undoing.
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In an age of rampant inequality and oligarchic government, two leading thinkers ask: can democratic socialism survive?
ByNewly released cabinet papers reveal the shocking truth behind James Callaghan’s 1968 Commonwealth I
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ByDonald Trump, the potential Republican presidential candidate, points to a black winner of The A
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The greatness of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel lies in its details. But they are often overlooked.
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Robert D Kaplan argues that in a time of uncertainty, we must resist radical change. But these cautionary tales…
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A story of two friends who took opposite sides asks: does ideology always triumph over loyalty?
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A new book explores three generations of dancers who looked beyond the stage to turn movement into a tool…
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Also featuring The Sound of Utopia by Michel Krielaars and The Secret Painter by Joe Tucker.
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Brady Corbet’s uncompromisingly long, high-concept epic about a Hungarian architect might seem pretentious – but it demands to be…
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This Apple TV+ thriller is derivative and extremely silly. And yet no producer seemed to think: is this too…
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The ninth series of this show is airing on Radio 4 – and it’s the perfect listen for bleak…
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At 60, the singer released Lookaftering, her first album in 35 years – and sparked a career renaissance.
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But it’s human endeavour not soil, stone and water that makes the difference.
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Different understandings of semantics expose the limitations of language.
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There was something gleefully life-affirming about this pickup-owning character.
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The pictures make me smile. The people in them seem real and alive.
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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 author on Neil Young and wanting to have watched Michelangelo create the statue of David.
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