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Is this election beyond satire?
The New Statesman· 6 days agoWith the Tories writing their own punchlines, the jokes in Michael Spicer: No Room are all too plausible.
Nigel Farage claims Reform UK set to come second across the North East in General Election
Chronicle Live via Yahoo News UK· 5 days agoElectoral Calculus predicts Reform could win 18 seats next week but a separate poll tracker built by...
Boris Johnson should take the fight to Nigel Farage
The New Statesman· 4 days agoRegular readers of these columns will know that I am not a fan of Boris Johnson. Much of the responsibility for the current state of the Tory party is...
Inside the shadow Tory leadership election
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThe battle for the leadership of the Conservative Party will begin officially in five days’ time, once Labour’s victory has been confirmed and Rishi...
Israel and Hezbollah are destroying the meaning of red lines
The New Statesman· 7 days agoThe Gaza conflict has changed the rules of engagement between Israel and Hezbollah. The unwritten...
‘Genuinely Funny’ Or ‘Skin-Crawling’? Critics Have Mixed Feels About ITV’s New Cancel Culture Drama
The Huffington Post UK· 5 days agoSteven Moffat’s new ITV comedy-drama Douglas Is Cancelled has a lot to say about today’s social...
As anti-Semitism surges, tolerance resurfaces at unexpected moments
The New Statesman· 6 days agoOnly here the binned item was a Jewish Star of David and the crudely lettered slogan beneath read...
‘Genuinely Funny’ Or ‘Skin-Crawling’? Critics Have Mixed Feels About ITV’s New Cancel Culture Drama
HuffPost UK via Yahoo News UK· 5 days agoThis timely series might not be perfect, but – as it goes to great pains to point out – who is?”...
Down and Out: the Movie – in cinemas not quite yet
The New Statesman· 6 days agoEight years ago he flew me over to Los Angeles and locked me up in a cabin in the mountains near Lake Arrowhead and didn’t let me out until I’d written a...
“I’ve done more than anyone else to defeat the far right in Britain”
The New Statesman· 6 days agoThe left, liberals and mainstream Conservatives loathe Nigel Farage. Rishi Sunak fears him and his...