In 2013, few could have predicted the decade of political convulsions to come
In the ten years since our centenary edition the world has darkened considerably – and war has returned to Europe.
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The Iraq War exposed the liberal delusion of remaking the world
The fall of Saddam Hussein was not the end that had been promised – it was the image of the…
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What Keir Starmer has learnt from the return of the German Social Democrats
To win back Red Wall voters, Labour needs a single word to define the party and its purpose. That word…
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From radical to reactionary, Paul Johnson came to hate the left but never lost his rage
He’d once been a man of the left – a former editor of the New Statesman, no less – and…
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Can Keir Starmer’s vision of the great “unbinding” of Britain save the Union?
Labour hopes its devolution proposals will hold the country together.
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A broken and humiliated Tory party turns back to Jeremy Hunt, the last Cameroon
Unlike Liz Truss, the new Chancellor is a serious and measured politician.
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What Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are getting wrong about Brexit
Editor's Note: In their race to the right, the Conservative leadership candidates are misreading the times.
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In 2019 Boris Johnson had everything he wanted. But the gods were waiting for him
The Prime Minister has left Britain unserious, divided and in need of complete transformation.
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