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Emily Maitlis’s diary: Why are we turning away the people who could make Britain richer?
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Emily Maitlis’s diary: Why are we turning away the people who could make Britain richer?
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What do the riots in France really signal?
The Matts consider the violent protests sweeping the continent and try to understand where it is coming from and what it signifies
Right wing Harry Potter fanfiction and 2 Kelly 2 Furious
This week, Lucy Reade reluctantly explains why so many right wing incels are now writing their own Harry Potter fanfictions. Meanwhile, James Ball brings us part two of the Kelly Clarkson mechanical bird saga
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The Matts discuss the developments in Ukraine in the past week and Donald Trump’s oil deal with Vladimir Putin
Kelly Clarkson gets Pretty-Womaned, and should you use ChatGPT to answer all your questions?
This week, James Ball unpacks Kelly Clarkson’s magic shop drama, while Lucy Reade asks if ChatGPT really has all the answers
The Two Matts Q&A: The decline of Zack and best ever speeches
The Matts answer listener questions including: why is Zack Polanski’s popularity plummeting?
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Britain’s vengeful press will never forgive Prince Harry – and they want the royals to hate him too
Burnham’s NEET plan is doomed because of one fatal flaw
The truth that Northern Ireland has never confronted
The chancellor’s impossible budget
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Brexit
Martin Rowson’s cartoon: Learn to Throw your Voice!
The Brexit majority has gone for ever – rejoin now has a majority of 9 million
The polls are clear – an overwhelming number of voters want to rejoin the EU. Millions of Brexit voters have died and the young want to get back in
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Parliament held a debate on joining the EU. But where were all the Conservative and Reform MPs who championed our departure in the first place?
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23 stupid reasons why Britain should never rejoin the European Union
Despite Andy Burnham’s views on Brexit, there are some arguments for not going back into the EU. Here are a few to get you started
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The shrieks of fury from Johnson, Badenoch, Farage and co speak volumes as the prime minister confronts the disaster they wrought
Ukraine
Trump, Putin and the ‘peacemakers’ who make war more likely
The comforting idea that we can understand and persuade our enemies is leading the world towards disaster
An all-new breed of online secret agent
Sending trained specialists on overseas operations is expensive and complicated. A new method has emerged. It’s easier – but far more dangerous
Putin’s wartime economy is heading for catastrophe
He’s calling up more troops to feed into the Ukraine meat-grinder, but nothing can save Putin from total economic disaster now – not even peace
Why is Farage so keen to protect Russia’s right to lie and cheat?
Reform’s leader is protesting too much as he wails about free speech in the face of Putin’s disinformation
The chilling banality of Putin’s kingdom of fear
Åsne Seierstad’s extraordinary Never Say War exposes the violence and indifference at the heart of Russia
Russian voters are tired of Putin – and he is running out of options
There’s no way for citizens to discuss the thing that’s ruining their lives – the war. At Russia’s parliamentary elections, there’s no way to vote against it either
The big picture
The riots in France are being stoked by Russia and Iran
The original complaints about school conditions have been completely lost in a mess of competing political interests, many of which are being driven from abroad
Aberfan: The pictures that show a village frozen by tragedy
After a coal waste slide killed 116 children and 28 adults in a Welsh colliery village in October 1966, US photographer Chuck Rapoport’s camera captured a community frozen by grief but trying to carry on
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Hattie McDaniel and the shame of Hollywood
How Orson Welles invented fake news – and predicted it would be used by liars
The lesson that Jamal Khashoggi left behind
Bessie Smith: the woman who faced down the Ku Klux Klan
Hiroshi Yamauchi, the unlikely genius behind Nintendo
Noor Inayat Khan, the pacifist turned wartime secret agent
The chancellor’s impossible budget
Burnham’s hard road to hope
