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Can Labour afford to raise taxes?
Can Labour afford to raise taxes?

With the Autumn budget looming, the government has some tough decisions to make. Rachel Reeves has to find a predicted £30bn in extra revenue to meet…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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Should Labour sack Starmer to beat Reform?
Should Labour sack Starmer to beat Reform?

The Caerphilly by-election proves Reform can be beaten. But is Keir Starmer the man to do it?


Last week voters in Caerphilly confounded pundits by ele…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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Two decades later, Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai returns
Two decades later, Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai returns

With only her second novel The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai won the 2006 Booker Prize, the leading literary prize in the global Anglosphere, beco…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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The death of Welsh Labour
The death of Welsh Labour

Is Welsh Labour dead?


Plaid Cyrmu won an historic victory in the by-election, trouncing Labour who had been dominant for over 100 years.


The "middle c…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Labour loses Caerphilly for first time in over 100 years
Labour loses Caerphilly for first time in over 100 years

After 14 attempts, Lindsay Whittle has won the Caerphilly seat in South Wales for Plaid Cymru. Reform came in second with over a third of the vote, a…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Andrew Marr: Keir Starmer is failing Britain
Andrew Marr: Keir Starmer is failing Britain

Andrew Marr says he thought Labour would fix everything, but: "I was wrong".


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Andrew Marr is stepping down as political editor of the New Statesman. …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Why the Trump-Putin summit fell apart
Why the Trump-Putin summit fell apart

Donald Trump's planned summit with Vladimir Putin is cancelled. Here's why.


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Less than a week after Donald Trump offered to meet Vladimir Putin in Bu…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Your Party and the UK's left crisis
Your Party and the UK's left crisis

James Schneider, the former director of strategic communications for Jeremy Corbyn, was involved in the founding of Your Party earlier this year. He …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Andrew, duke no more
Andrew, duke no more

Andrew had already stepped down as a working royal, after that disastrous Newsnight interview in 2019, but he’s now gone a step further and agreed to…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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100 years of Thatcher, with Charles Moore
100 years of Thatcher, with Charles Moore

A century on from the her birth, Tanjil Rashid sits down with the Iron Lady's official biographer, Charles Moore.

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