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Marie Le Conte

America, the country that went off the deep end

Europeans watch Friends and eat burgers and think we understand America. Then elections like this make us realise we really don’t

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Getting drunk as the election unfolds

The night started with nauseous optimism. Then came vodka and gloom

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Meeting MAGA in the deep south

A journey through North and South Carolina reveals the widening gap between the current Trumpian GOP and the party it used to be

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Meet the Ukrainians who could win it for Kamala

A diaspora of 120,000 in Pennsylvania fear Trump and could turn a state he lost by just 80,000 votes last time

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In the queue for Trump, the ‘biggest rock star’

The hordes outside Madison Square Garden looked normal. What they talked about was anything but

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The mysterious rise of Robert Jenrick

He has no charisma, intellectual consistency or distinguishing features of any kind. Other than being very, very right wing, who – or what – is he?

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For the self-employed, parenting feels impossible

Labour failed to look at the maternity allowance before publishing the Employment Rights Bill

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Confronting the truth about Alex Salmond

There are far too many questions over the former first minister's behaviour towards women for warm eulogies

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What happened, James Cleverly?

The leadership race increasingly looks like the last hurrah before the party's long descent

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Dilettante: The internet I loved is disappearing fast

Online life has changed over the past five years or so, and not for the better. The algorithm has taken over entirely

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What’s the point of party conferences?

It’s nice for politicians to be able to hide from the real world for a while, it’s just a shame there’s a real world out there to fix

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Can we rage against the machines?

Artificial intelligence is ruining the internet we once loved

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Labour promised to clean up politics. When does it start?

Ministers are kicking back over Freebiegate, but Fleet Street loves nothing more than a story that runs and runs

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Rage against the dying of the right

The Tory papers are relishing the chance to bash Labour. But with sliding circulations and their pals out of power, are they still relevant?

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Labour’s hungover conference

The one thing you can rely on at party get-togethers is lots of booze

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We deserve better lives and deaths

Labour and Tories are both divided on assisted dying – so long as that political uncertainty continues, Britain isn’t a safe place for vulnerable people

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Dilettante: on scandals

That Keir Starmer has been letting a millionaire buy him and his wife clothes is not some life-shattering betrayal, but it is a betrayal nonetheless

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A home of one’s own

The end of no fault evictions is music to the ears

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Dilettante: on bad shopping

It is not an easy thing to say, but buying things online – specifically cheap, poorly made things – should not be as easy as it currently is

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Michel Barnier: a Macronic miscalculation

The French president’s new choice of PM shows that his political project has ended in failure

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The joyful nostalgia of band reunions

I may not be a fan of Oasis, but people’s excitement about their reunion is infectious

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Starmer risks a membership vote row

Political parties belong to activists as much as they do to leaders

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Dilettante: On a fresh start

The election of hundreds of new MPs presents Parliament with a short window of opportunity

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Labour needs some Conventional wisdom

What Harris’s Democrats can teach Starmer’s Labour party

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Kemi Badenoch gets it wrong, again

The Tory leadership candidate’s mixed-race children won’t be forced to pick an identity - despite what her latest culture war rant says

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Dilettante: Joining the X-odus

Is it time to leave Elon Musk’s online sewer?

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The end of the right wing press

They’re out of touch, out of power and running out of readers

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Visiting the other half of France

More Belgian in its culture than French, the north has nothing on the western coast

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Politicians – speak up for immigration

It makes the country richer, culturally and economically. Now’s the time to say so

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How I learned to love the Olympics

The opening ceremony felt like France reintroducing itself to the world, warts and all

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A long race to the bottom

Yet another Tory leadership battle is under way. But, outside of the six contenders, does anyone really care?

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The Tory leadership circus begins

Kemi Badenoch remains the front-runner - bizarre given how ill-suited to the job she is

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