The Labour vibe shift
After 14 years of Conservative rule, world leaders, MPs, business and the media are preparing for a new political order.
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The Tories’ death spiral
Rishi Sunak has failed to provide his party with the coherent leadership it needs.
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Scotland declares independence from the SNP
The party is now in serious trouble: divided, factionalised and beset by scandal.
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Scotland’s spring of discontent
Doubts are growing over Humza Yousaf’s leadership of the SNP. Will he be ousted before the next Holyrood election in…
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The new age of global threats
For decades, the West enjoyed the fruits of the post-Cold War “peace dividend”. This era is now definitively over.
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Sold down the river
England’s broken water industry is a case study in the dangers of dogmatic privatisation. It is time to rethink our…
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After neoliberalism
Across the West, faith in liberal democracy is waning. We need a clear response to the new politics of grievance.
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Bidenism comes to Britain
Rachel Reeves, Labour’s chancellor-in-waiting and chief ideologue, aims to establish a new economic consensus with an active state at its…
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