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Labour faces the possibility of a Titanic shipwreck in the Makerfield by-election ANDREW GIMSON We live in an age of insurgents. Andy Burnham can only win the Makerfield by-election by leading a more complete rebellion […]
Two Labour leadership hopefuls have suggested the UK should rejoin. But the evidence suggests we were right to get out. PLUS: Brexit-related audio and video from the Battle of Ideas festival. ROB LYONS ‘Leaving the […]
TILAK DOSHI The international committee responsible for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s official climate scenarios quietly delivered a bombshell last month: the notorious RCP8.5 “business-as-usual” pathway — the extreme emissions scenario that has underpinned virtually […]
London’s protests, viewed from the Continent Koekebakker J’ACCUSE Because of the policy choices that Western governments feel compelled to make, be that on migration or climate change, more sophisticated methods of restricting the flow of […]
The platform that once called Ofcom’s approach “overreach” just handed it a 48-hour content removal pipeline with quarterly audits. CINDY HARPER X has agreed to process the vast majority of content flagged as illegal “hate” under the […]
FRANK HAVILAND ‘Division’ is one of those overused wank-words governments employ to tell you whose side of the debate you should find yourself on. In Britain, towns increasingly split along religious fault lines, migrants who […]
Oil and gas extraction is one of our highest productivity industries so it makes sense to restart drilling. DAVID TURVER Introduction The energy crisis driven by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz as a […]
Britain has survived unrest before, but only when its rulers remembered how to listen. C.J. STRACHAN Hexham Marketplace, scene of the 1761 massacre, looking towards the Moot Hall, c1800. Hexham’s marketplace, about half the size […]
Starmer isn’t the problem. Replacing him solves nothing. VIEWS FROM MY CAB Who would have thought it? Starmer is entertaining us. In declining to resign our current Prime Minister is providing a gripping psychodrama as […]
Sarah Ingham: How the Greens do like to greenwash – even a Lamborghini SARAH INGHAM Dr Sarah Ingham is the author of The Military Covenant: its impact on civil-military relations in Britain. The image of a […]