Having got the ball rolling, it would be ironic if it was the more centrist wing of Labour that finished off the job.
✍️ James Heale
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For a leadership election to be set in motion, 20 per cent of Labour MPs – 81 people – would have to back a single challenger. Can West do that?
✍️ James Heale
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What all these framings capture is a sense that an elite class has tried to tell us little people how things should be done.
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In the four years since invading Ukraine, the Victory Day parade in Moscow has gone through various iterations that have reflected the Russian army’s performance on the front line in Ukraine. This year was distinctly different.
✍️ Lisa Haseldine
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Dr. Frankenstein would understand that it was his duty to put down the hideous creature his foolishness and vanity unleashed on the world.
✍️ Stephen Daisley
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If they want to continue to win Red Wall seats, Reform UK can forget about some of the policies their top people have dabbled with in the past.
✍️ Ross Clark
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When it isn’t desecrating houses with cheap, misunderstood versions of what they think children will like, the National Trust is literally wrecking them.
✍️ Harry Mount
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Did European rule in Asia and Africa really make colonised people poorer?
✍️ Tirthankar Roy
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All of this would matter less if Putin were popular. He is not – or at least not as he was.
✍️ Alexander Kolyandr
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The martini is making a comeback
✍️ Ameer Kotecha
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Former minister Catherine West has this afternoon announced that she is prepared to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership.
By inclination, tradition and design, the Labour Party is much less prone to toppling leaders than their Conservative counterparts. There is no equivalent to the 1922, Sir Graham Brady’s grin and the…
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The instincts of Farage, Richard Tice, Danny Kruger and others are far less aligned with the people who are voting for their party.
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Some of the greatest combinations of house and landscape on the planet. Now just ace settings for children’s games.
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People want a politics grounded in home, not a Prime Minister in it for a leaders’ family photo and a chilled glass of Chasselas.
