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Unite has also voted to ‘re-examine its relationship with Labour’, in a sign of a growing divide between the union and the Labour Party. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has been…
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The road to recovery
First in 1945, then 1997 and now 2024. The three times in history that a Labour government has been elected on a sweeping majority, crushing the Conservative incumbents. What Keir Starmer…
Correcting our Grammar mistake
During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a pledge to open new grammar schools, no class warrior threw himself into the battle against selective education with such ferocity…
Defenestration nation
Postmortems on the corpse of the Conservative party are much like those on real bodies:…
Beware Project Fear
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the googly-eyed sage Yoda lectured…
Where hope takes root
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New protest laws would be extreme
Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative…
History’s false promises
In 2015, when interviewing Jonathan Sumption, Matt Stadlen asked a deceptively simple question: “Why does…
Bonkers bunkers
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Might is not right
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Talking back to Big Brother
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Shami Chakrabarti
Lawyer and human rights activist Shami Chakrabarti defends the ECHR and discusses how notions of liberty are inverted to justify oppression
Dominic Cummings
Rowan Pelling talks to Dominic Cummings about a start-up party, Brexit, the covid inquiry, Whitehall and other shit-shows
Earl Mountbatten
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The politics of colour
Tina Gharavi’s full response to the controversy surrounding Queen Cleopatra, a Netflix series about the identity of the legendary last pharaoh
Acts of sedition
Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author
CULTURE
“While there was no shortage of women writers getting published, their novels weren’t being honoured like the ones men were writing”
Kate Mosse
The critically acclaimed novelist discusses her 1950s-set novella The Party with Helen Brown
The former burlesque dancer discusses her fictionalised memoir of Soho life in Performance, the exhilarating freedom of club nights in her youth and “hatching” from an egg on stage
Channel 4’s first female news anchor discusses trailblazing women, internet trolls, sexual assault and her new book The Ladder
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