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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
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The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
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We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
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The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
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The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent