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Based Labour wants to take back control

Can they win the tussle for influence over Starmer 2.0?

When I met Gisèle Pelicot

Also this week: a first in my career, and maternal joy with anxiety

Nostalgia is left wing now

At a model village in Norfolk, I briefly glimpse a functioning, confident England

Starmer humiliated Wormald – but his problems with the Blob remain

The civil service believes it must deliver or risk being replaced

Is Bridget Phillipson really the most dangerous woman in Britain?

The Education Secretary on Send reform, gender and the year that could make or break the government

In Olney, women limber up for the race of their lives

The Olney Pancake Race has been run on Shrove Tuesday since 1445

Tony Blair is old Labour now

The British politician turned elite power-broker has nothing to smile about any more

I’m Sorry, Prime Minister is missing the drama

Stripped of the Westminster scaffolding, this Yes, Minister sequel unspools into endless trading of retorts and ripostes, going nowhere

England’s maternity scandal engulfs another NHS trust

Dozens of babies’ deaths might have been avoided. Their families are fighting for answers

The NS Poem: If No One Turns

A new translation of Rabindranath Tagore by Joe Winter

Can American democracy survive Trump?

The president is manoeuvring to delegitimise the November midterms

Letter of the week: Principles paired with praxis

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What Gordon Brown told me about Mandelson

Also this week: crumpets for John Major, and the hypocrisy of Nadine Dorries

Driving in Ukraine’s anti-drone corridors

Also: Peter Mandelson for beginners, and cold comfort in Kharkiv

Dirty realism goes supernatural

The writer’s new novel Vigil suffers from its ambition

The student loan rebellion is only just beginning

A society which punishes its bright young things cannot expect to succeed

Love in the time of AI

Young people are turning to AI chatbots for relationships they can’t find in the real world

Finally, a vape that doesn’t make me cough my lungs up

But I’ve already lost it somewhere in my bed

1963: A sleazy sex scandal blights the government

Beer and sandwiches: At the Angel Inn in Durham

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