The UK, like many other countries, has a falling birthrate. But Danny Kruger’s perverse 1970s-style policies offer nothing to mothers-to-be
Babies are beautiful. I always want to smile at them in the …
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From Trump’s Maga to Farage’s Reform, they’re all following Putin’s nationalism playbook | Rafael Behr ⊕
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Reform is promising a ‘patriotic school curriculum’ – but what does that mean? In the end it comes down to submission to the leader
In September 2022, seven months into an all-out war in Ukraine that …
9 days ago
Is No 10 seeking its own destruction? Why else would it botch its council plans and hand a victory to Farage? | Polly Toynbee ⊖⊖
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Labour promised ‘ambitious reforms’, but it was fixing things that were not broken. And the moral: focus on what matters and stop making stupid mistakes
What were they thinking? Labour inherited the w…
14 days ago
Giving votes to 16-year-olds would be a win for Labour – and our country | Polly Toynbee ⊕⊕
For once, the party has done right by young people by proposing they get more of a say in a system rigged against them. Farage, beware
Here it is as promised, a bill introduced to parliament on Thursd…
If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff ○
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A debating society didn’t want to invite two figures connected to the party to speak. Cue an authoritarian response
It must have seemed the easiest offer in the world to refuse. Would students at Bang…
16 days ago
Keir Starmer is the bandage Labour can’t rip off for fear of opening old wounds | Rafael Behr ⊖⊖
The party’s MPs know their leader is failing but with no obvious replacement, getting rid of him now would cause more hurt than healing
Westminster time is counted in scandals, resignations, rebellion…
17 days ago
Public faith in politics is now in the gutter. Here’s how Labour should drag it out | Polly Toynbee ○
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With Britain sliding down the index of transparency and voters angry, the looming election bill fails to solve the key issue: the toxicity of political donations
With grimly apt timing, the annual Tra…
19 days ago
Morgan McSweeney’s fall offers a new beginning. Starmer and his cabinet had better grab it | Polly Toynbee ⊖
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If he and his philosophy were to blame for the government’s ills, now it can change tack. There can be no more excuses
Here is something they can’t take away from him: Morgan McSweeney is often credit…
23 days ago
When Maga oligarchs control the platforms, it isn’t really a debate about ‘free speech’ | Rafael Behr ⊖
Moves to ban under-16s from social media should raise deeper questions about who controls democracy’s digital infrastructure
The last UK general election of the 20th century was also the first to anti…
41 days ago
I went to A&E with a broken wrist and caught a dose of ‘I’ve been lucky’ syndrome | Polly Toynbee ⊖⊖
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Yes, ‘corridor care’ horrors persist, yet statistics show my timely, efficient treatment wasn’t a matter of fortune but quite ordinary
It was a bad start to the new year. Slipping on ice, I fell and b…