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Britain needs a brand new tax system
The battle of essays between Labour Party grandees has given British politics a distinctly retro feel over the last week, as Tony Blair, Keir Starmer, Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham behaved like competing 18th-century pamphleteers explaining in earnest detail why things will only get…
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The Truth Is Out There….
One of the most striking aspects of the revelations in ‘Get In’, the brilliant book by Times journalists Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire on Keir Starmer’s rise to power, is how uninterested the Prime Minister is in the wider world,…
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Britain isn’t ‘ungovernable’: it’s badly led
The 6-7 craze is about to turn from a meaningless, but ultimately fun, meme into something decidedly more serious: the number of UK Prime Ministers in the last 10 years. British firms and families are battling spiralling energy bills while our…
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We need to talk about addiction
Even though the final local election results won’t be declared for a while yet, it’s clear there are glum faces in our two traditionally-biggest parties, an enormous trademark grin from Nigel Farage at Reform UK, and that Zack Polanski’s Greens…
