The UK, like many other countries, has a falling birthrate. But Danny Kruger’s perverse 1970s-style policies offer nothing to mothers-to-be
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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…
30 days ago
From the Burnham row to the China visit, avoiding hard choices is the Starmer doctrine | Rafael Behr ⊖⊖
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Whether at home or abroad, the pattern of ducking difficult arguments and calling it pragmatism is the same
There comes a point in a prime minister’s career when foreign travel offers respite from dom…
37 days ago
Donald Trump is not forgetting America’s old alliances – his goal is to destroy them | Rafael Behr ⊖
European leaders who know their continent’s history must now see that the US president is siding with the forces of tyranny
In January 2018, when Donald Trump was in the second year of his first term …
44 days ago
Labour and the Tories are banking on a return to the ‘old normal’. That’s not what voters want | Rafael Behr ⊕
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An economic recovery could still change the parties’ fortunes. But the days when only two parties were licensed to supply Britain with prime ministers are gone
Unpopular politicians take consolation i…