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Patience Wheatcroft

Why Farage is targeting angry young men

Reform have shown no interest in solving their problems - but they definitely want their votes

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The absurd hysteria over the assisted dying bill

Fears that we are on “a slippery slope" to widespread euthanasia are misplaced

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Putin is about to inflict a refugee crisis on Europe. Here’s how to stop it

Giving frozen Russian assets to Ukraine would save Zelensky and send a defiant message to Trump

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The devastating failure of Justin Welby

The church, both Anglican and Catholic, has conspicuously failed to provide the leadership the UK craves

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Kemi Badenoch has already wrecked the Tories

In making them a carbon copy of Reform, the new leader of the opposition shows she is neither thoughtful nor serious

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The EU are baffled by the Budget and Starmer

Concerns over youth mobility and Northern Ireland are growing in Brussels

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Prison doesn’t work. Here’s what to do instead

Early release is a sticking plaster, not a solution. We need a wholly new approach to sentencing

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Is Britain ready for its inevitable tax rises?

Clearly, the chancellor has no intention of courting short-term popularity as the budget looms

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The Conservatives are about to enter the abyss

By the time another election looms, Conservative MPs will sniff potential doom and ditch their leader for a more Machiavellian individual

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Time for Reeves to face the budget conundrum

As October 30 looms, Reeves must prepare to perform a fiscal juggling act

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Can slow news really rescue old news?

With readers increasingly moving away from newsprint, the format’s future could be in jeopardy

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What’s the point of buying the Spectator?

A little influence over a national publication may be enough to keep Sir Paul Marshall, yet another would-be media mogul, happy

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The neverending Tory leadership race

The next leader will be unlikely to take the Tories into the next election

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Reeves needs to be a bit braver with her accounts

If Rachel Reeves wants to be a truly reforming chancellor, she should embrace a more radical approach to accounting

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Tone-deaf Tory six are leading the party towards oblivion

The new crop of MPs are faced with a Hogwarts-style parliament as the Tories’ leadership crisis rumbles on unabated

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Shame in public life seems to have vanished

The government has demonstrated a conviction that dangerous behaviour has to have consequences

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The Tories are finished for good if they lurch any further right

If Labour fails in its declared missions, the Conservatives could have another chance – but not if they veer to the right

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A cull of hereditaries and elders in the Lords is not the answer. So what is?

A term limit, rather than an age limit, is key to reforming the upper house

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It’s the contradictions that may trip up the PM

Legislating is the relatively easy part, particularly given a massive Commons majority. Implementation is another matter entirely

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If you’ve got it, share it – or else we’ll come for you

After the election, Rachel Reeves is in the perfect position to exert a little gentle blackmail

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Can Keir Starmer’s government find a new role for Britain?

With action rather than empty words, the new government could make Britain into a happier country, content to enjoy its advantages

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The Conservatives’ long game of thrones begins

The election rendered a moderate Conservative Party redundant

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Parliament has a chance to be relevant again

There must be something better than the juvenile name-calling that has come to characterise our way of government

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Freezing out Farage

The best way to fight the Reform leader’s populism is to produce a united front

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Farage and the politics of anger

With an overdose of incompetence, Rishi Sunak has driven right wing Tories back to Nigel Farage

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It’s time to talk Brexit

Our political leaders will barely utter the B-word – but they can’t avoid it forever

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The strange death of the Conservative Party

On July 4, I will be celebrating the defenestration of the Tory party, but not without regrets over what has been lost

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Britain has had enough of political gimmicks

Voters want stability, rather than novelty, from the next government

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What Starmer should say about Brexit

Skilled European workers are deserting the UK and Starmer could find a route to bring them back

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Demonising a Labour moderate didn’t work in ’97. It won’t work now

The electorate will see through any attempt to frighten them into yet another period of government by the doomed Tories

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Forget the Garrick, what about the Freemasons?

The secretive group seems more worthy of scrutiny than a club for elderly thespians

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The UK’s private equity sector is ready to implode

If the Bank of England is right, the reverberations will be felt around the country

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