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An NPR editor accuses the network of institutional bias: “An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that ...
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An NPR editor accuses the network of institutional bias
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The tortured Taylor Swift: In the week that Courtney Love called Taylor Swift “not important” (“She might be a safe space for girls,” Love said ...
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The tortured Taylor Swift
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Liz Truss is right about the Deep State: “There is no time for finger-pointing,” Liz Truss declares in the introduction to her score-settling autobiographical ...
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Liz Truss is right about the Deep State
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Liz Truss, Angela Rayner and the perils of partisanship: Politics is a rough game. In few other careers are you subjected to such a level of scrutiny ...
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Liz Truss, Angela Rayner and the perils of partisanship
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Does Liz Truss know she’s a joke?: Liz Truss is fatally self-aware. She has spent her time out of office recording her flaws with painstaking accuracy ...
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Does Liz Truss know she’s a joke?
Quick Glance: Liz Truss: From Premiership to Resignation in 49 Days
  • Liz Truss became Prime Minister and resigned after just 49 days, despite her husband's prediction that 'it would all end in tears'.

  • Truss assumed office on September 6, 2022, succeeding Boris Johnson, but faced early challenges and personal struggles.

  • Despite implementing economic measures and facing political turbulence, Truss resigned after a mini-budget led to a pensions crisis.

  • She reflects on her failed tenure, attributing blame to structural issues and drawing parallels to the controversial football manager Brian Clough.
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Tom Hollander’s deliciously nasty Truman Capote: However starry it may be – there are enough big names here to fill a red carpet – there’s no getting away from ...
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Tom Hollander’s deliciously nasty Truman Capote
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Inside the police vs the NatCons: Brussels Nigel Farage has never looked more satisfied. Europe’s hard right was handed a gift today when the police tried to ...
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Inside the police vs the NatCons
Quick Glance: Brussels Police Shut Down Right-Wing Conference with Farage and Braverman
  • Brussels police stormed a right-wing conference attended by Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman after orders for the event to be shut down.

  • The controversial National Conservatism Conference was closed to ensure public safety.

  • Despite police arriving and giving attendees 15 minutes to leave, speeches continued.

  • The conference, hosted by Viktor Orban and the Edmund Burke Foundation, aimed to strengthen national conservatism principles in Western countries.
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David Lammy’s foreign policy for a diminished Britain: If David Lammy becomes foreign secretary after this year’s election, he will face tricky diplomatic ...
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David Lammy’s foreign policy for a diminished Britain
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The Book of Clarence is a bombastic biblical satire: The year is AD 33 and in Jerusalem, LaKeith Stanfield’s Clarence can’t help but notice that people keep ...
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The Book of Clarence is a bombastic biblical satire
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Inside Northern Ireland’s satanic panic: Are you ready for a “story of goat theft and devil worship, thrash metal and murder, bogeymen, blarney ...
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Inside Northern Ireland’s satanic panic
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Should you join the 2024 gold rush?: From 1960 to 1990 John Updike wrote four novels charting the life of his best-known character, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom ...
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Should you join the 2024 gold rush?
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Humza Yousaf’s struggle for a narrative goes on: Nicola Sturgeon’s legacy is quickly falling apart. Her arrest (without charge) during the investigation into the ...
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Humza Yousaf’s struggle for a narrative goes on
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The missiles of April: “Power,” said Mao Zedong, “flows from the barrel of a gun.” Yet using power to achieve deterrence (dissuading others from attacking via ...
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The missiles of April
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Why we make art: I’ve spent the past couple of days on a little holiday in Amsterdam, with my son Blake and his girlfriend. We visited the Van Gogh museum of ...
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Why we make art
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Your fandom isn’t funny: Fandom has found politics. Anyone for whom the words “Elizabeth Warren Holocaust tattoo” means anything knows this is the case ...
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Your fandom isn’t funny
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The new age of global threats: In the Middle East, all is changed – changed utterly. Iran’s “Operation True Promise”, launched on 13 April ...
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The new age of global threats
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Plebgate’s Andrew Mitchell furnishes himself with a downmarket ministerial title: Shy bairns get no sweets, and Andrew Mitchell was calling himself Deputy ...
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Plebgate’s Andrew Mitchell furnishes himself with a downmarket ministerial ...
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Andrew O’Hagan’s maximum city: In February 2024, an article in the New Yorker forensically investigated a moral rot spreading through London ...
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Andrew O’Hagan’s maximum city
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Joe Lycett’s self-serving fake news stunt: How do you solve a problem like disinformation? With regulation? Education? It’s a problem that has worsened since ...
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Joe Lycett’s self-serving fake news stunt
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Alex Garland’s Civil War is his sharpest, most brutal dystopia: Alex Garland is a specialist in unravelling reality. His stories take people to places where the ...
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Alex Garland’s Civil War is his sharpest, most brutal dystopia
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The housing crisis is inescapable: The point at which political obsessives are growing tired of hearing the same bloody message again is also roughly the point ...
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The housing crisis is inescapable
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Being Foreign Secretary is harder than it looks for David Cameron: David Cameron beguiled some last week with a mildly competent social media post ...
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Being Foreign Secretary is harder than it looks for David Cameron
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The best of the academic presses for spring 2024: A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle For America by Richard Slotkin Modern America is ...
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The best of the academic presses for spring 2024
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The cost of climbing Everest: My childhood dream was once to climb Mount Everest. Mountains mesmerised me: we used to go on holiday to the Alps and it was ...
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The cost of climbing Everest
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The new racist right are uniquely dangerous: Which sector of political opinion produces the most noxious anti-Semitism? If you had asked me this even five years ...
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The new racist right are uniquely dangerous
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Universities are in crisis: Higher education commentators have been warning for years of a looming crisis in university funding. Now ...
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Universities are in crisis
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Rishi Sunak isn’t popular enough to flog insurance: Rishi Sunak has become deeply unloved by the public, 71 per cent of whom hold an unfavourable view of the PM ...
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Rishi Sunak isn’t popular enough to flog insurance