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…
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What exactly is it about Britons that makes us so good at hurtling down an icy drainpipe? | Zoe Williams ⊕⊕
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Team GB has swept up the skeleton medals at the Winter Olympics. I suspect it’s something to do with our capacity at weathering tremendous, impotent fear
It’s amazing how fast you can become a passion…
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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…
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…
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…
31 days ago
Victoria Beckham has trademarked her kids’ names – and my dog is not happy about it | Zoe Williams ⊕
My pup Romeo and daughter Harper share names with the Beckham offspring. Could VB not just have laid claim to ‘Posh’ instead?
As a sidebar to the civil war in the House of Beckham, it emerged at the w…
Why is Andy Burnham such a threat to Keir Starmer? Everyone likes him | Zoe Williams ⊕
Labour may have successfully blocked the mayor of Greater Manchester from running for parliament, but this definitely hasn’t solved their problems
Some people call Andy Burnham Labour’s prince across …