Labour’s Farage problem
The Reform leader has showed how easily Labour’s majority could be demolished.
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The Reform leader has showed how easily Labour’s majority could be demolished.
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Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Like the Second Vatican Council, he proved the Church to be as human as it is divine.
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Also this week: Elon Musk wields the axe in Washington, and Hollywood lands in Bedfordshire.
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The Environment Secretary on how Labour can defeat populism and why Defra must no longer be a blocker of…
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As the local elections approach, Reform is after Labour’s voters.
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Also this week: Big Tech’s multiplying court cases, and the sale of the Telegraph limps on.
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In the face of Trump’s illiberal policies, the legal profession is not only surrendering, it’s collaborating.
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The party is attempting to rewrite history.
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How the new right came to loathe Britain even more than the radical left.
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How the US president’s assault on prosperity is transforming the world.
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In the struggle with the US for dominance, which superpower’s patriotic determination is stronger?
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After scandals and infighting, Nigel Farage’s party faces its first big test on 1 May, at England’s local elections.
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Gay Talese published a candid account of his infidelities in 1980. His marriage survived; his career almost didn’t.
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A deeply reported survey of a much-mythologised slice of Britain reveals a heterogeneous, complex demographic.
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The country’s elusive identity resides not in a National Trust garden, but on the thundering dual carriageway of the…
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The writer’s posthumous therapy journal is raw and unvarnished – the most direct book she never wrote.
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The novelist thought his great-grandfather’s memoir would be a story to be proud of. He found something else.
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Also featuring Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt and Mythica by Emily Hauser.
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On-screen portraits of abortionists are rare. April, which follows a doctor in rural Georgia, is starkly honest – and beautiful.
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With a great cast and bold writing, Chris Lang’s new murder mystery drama is deliciously watchable.
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The BBC Sounds podcast Titanic: Ship of Dreams captures every detail of the catastrophe.
And it’s a lot cheaper too.
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The moral dilemma that broke free of academic discourse and became a runaway meme.
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Consider my outrage: a landlady refused to serve me. I was sober.
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Our gigs went better than I could have hoped; even the things that went wrong added to the magic.
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From Kenny Dalglish’s hair to the evocative names of players, the game is a carnival of distraction.
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This England. This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole…
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The philanthropist on her mother’s kindness and being a breast-pump pioneer.
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