”Perhaps the best tribute I can pay The Twitnam Summer is it made me want to pick up Gulliver’s Travels again.
“She makes the book sound fresh and exciting, a product of its time and an enduring lesson in the follies and hypocrisies of the human condition.”
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The UK's CMA just forced Google to let news publishers opt out of AI Overviews without vanishing from Search. Martha Dark of tech justice nonprofit Foxglove argues this is a landmark win — and a blueprint regulators in the EU, Brazil and beyond should follow next.
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The same politician wants to go to court to over turn a ban on foreign donations (over £100k)
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Reform leader claims ‘anti-whiteness is institutionalised’ in UK as polls suggest Labour have lead in Makerfield
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White officials redirect public concern, downplaying the dangers of Islamophobia while disproportionately amplifying antisemitism
Trump named as salesman of the year by Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD.
The US president’s war on Iran has put a rocket under EV sales.
Incredibly, Nigel Farage has been on #BBCQT 38 times.
The fact he’s never been on Desert Island Discs, or that he imagines he’s been “banned” by that programme, is irrelevant.
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Remember when, as Scottish secretary, Donald Dewar landed at Edinburgh Airport with Baroness Smith, widow of former Labour leader John Smith, in a private jet, with the white paper and mandate for a devolved Scottish Parliament?
Rory Scothorne reviews David Torrance's History of the Labour Party
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R.I.P. Roy Hattersley (1932-2026), former deputy leader of the Labour Party, who has died aged 93.
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“Every Scotland fan would have hoped for a relatively stress-free return to the biggest stage, a handy 2-0 or 3-0 that wasn't an assault on the senses. What they got was a nerve-shredding night, a 90-minute rollercoaster ride, an evening to bring on a migraine.”
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The UK has shown intervention is possible, writes Foxglove co-executive director Martha Dark. Now other regulators must act, she says.
In The Twitnam Summer, Hester Grant brings to life the heady months when Jonathan Swift and his circle wrote scathing satires and joined crowds to see the ‘Wild Boy of Germany’
The author, journalist and politician was a cabinet minister under James Callaghan, deputy leader under Neil Kinnock and one of New Labour’s most persistent critics
