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What is wrong now was wrong before
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Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
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Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
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The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing