For most, what we see in real life is mundane. But those who wish to fan the flames of anti-immigrant feeling share a different image online
It was the summer of 2024 when it all decisively started, w…
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The right is desperate for a solution to falling birthrates. Who’s going to tell them that the answer is immigration? | John Harris ⊕
Reform and Maga are correct that ageing populations are storing up huge social problems, but our prosperity still rests on the hard work of migrants
A growing mountain of reports highlights one of the…
19 days ago
Andy Burnham’s Manchester has a defining spirit – and Britain could do with a lot more of it | John Harris ⊕⊕
Call it a mix of collectivism and entrepreneurialism or just an overarching vibe, but the mayor’s philosophy could be on the way to Westminster
Among the underrated later work of those revered sons of…
73 days ago
Jonathan Greenberger named POLITICO global editor-in-chief ⊕
POLITICO announced today that Jonathan Greenberger has been named Global Editor-in-Chief, effective May 1. In this role, Greenberger will oversee all aspects of POLITICO’s global newsroom. Greenberge…
3 months ago
Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris ○
In Gorton and Denton, I heard again and again that people wanted seismic political change – Labour and the Tories are no longer part of that conversation
In the wake of Labour’s third-place showing at…
4 months ago
Politicians ‘don’t live how we live’, voters tell me. The Mandelson scandal won’t change their minds | John Harris ⊕
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Whoever succeeds Keir Starmer will have an almost impossible task: convincing voters that politicians will serve the people, not themselves
Keir Starmer’s side of the ever-unfolding Jeffrey Epstein sc…
In Somerset, I found glorious proof that the UK can build great council houses. So what is holding us back? | John Harris ⊕⊕
It was life-affirming to meet the residents of Rainbow Way in Minehead. But so much still stands in the way of Labour’s vision for social housing
I met Carole Guscott, a retired former carer, on a cl…
Lake Cargelligo shootings were over in minutes but the effects will echo through generations in a small NSW town ⊖
The town is awash now with rumour and innuendo, by the warped logic that actions so brutal must have been necessitated by an unforgivable slight
Warning: This article contains references to Indigenous…
5 months ago
In 2026, remember this: Britain is much better than it was in so many ways. Don’t swallow the right’s lies | John Harris ⊖
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Populists rewrite the history of this nation because they were complicit in much of its ugliness. The progressive fightback must start now
A couple of the more disruptive boys in the class put red lac…
Flamboyant, furious and full of hope: CMAT is the sound of 2025 | John Harris ⊕
The Irish singer-songwriter does what the best musicians do: perfectly crystallising their time while inspirationally taking a stand against it
What has it felt like to be alive in 2025? The basic ans…