Starmer’s bonfire of controls
All governments vow to cut red tape, but there are special dangers in such talk for a cash-strapped Labour administration
Politics
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Local Government
What’s on the local government ‘shit list’?
While Whitehall is preoccupied with overcrowded prisons and insolvent universities, councils have many other urgent problems
US election 2024
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United States
At Trump’s Pennsylvania rally I saw the key ingredients of fascism
Returning to the site of his near-assassination in the swing state, the Republican candidate gloried in the adoration of people who sought his permission to be terrible
Magazine
A year on from the 7th October, Samir Al-Youssef and Ayelet Gundar-Goshen reflect on horror and trauma in the Middle East. Our critics offer a US culture special, while former Nato secretary general George Robertson pens a letter to voters
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Climate Change
How many more hurricanes before we wake up to the climate crisis?
As a new scientific report warns that the world is on the ‘brink of an irreversible climate disaster’, why do politicians and the media seem so uninterested?
Phone Hacking
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Phone Hacking
Did the Murdoch empire hack MPs for commercial ends?
What if Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper company didn’t just hack phones to get a scoop, but targeted elected politicians—right to the very top—in pursuit of its business ambitions?
