The long, political career of Taylor Swift
Over the past decade, Swift has navigated a changing political climate with considerable, if decreasing, deftness.
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Opponents talk of a govenment beginning to fray round the edges, while internally criticism is surfacing.
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The messaging app has enjoyed a near pristine reputation for the last decade. But users are beginning to desert it.
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Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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To the outside world, Macron still appears something of a success. But in France, his approval rating has dropped to…
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Commons Confidential: Bruisers and bodyguards at Labour conference
The pick of the best gossip from the 2018 Labour party conference in Liverpool.
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Keynes’s biographer Robert Skidelsky: “I’ve become more and more persuaded by Marx”
The economist and peer on the cost of austerity and how “power structures” limit debate.
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