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A prime minister cannot trample over parliament. It doesn’t work that way and the ones who try it invariably go down in flames. Whoever follows Starmer into No 10 should keep that in mind

If I had to put my life on it, I’d guess that he will be PM by Christmas

The Labour leadership contenders each have their strengths – and a lot of weaknesses

The right wing press has launched an attack on the head of the Southbank Centre over something he didn’t even say. This time they may have met their match

The UK has deep-seated problems its political leaders refuse to confront. But that doesn’t make it a dystopian wasteland beyond the powers of reasonable statecraft

In a Vanity Fair interview, the star footballer said he was worried by the rise of the hard right. The result was a wave of race-baiting, and the return of the big Le Pen lie: that unless you’re white, you’re not really French

An addiction to risk aversion has stalled progress. Now with Burnham, the dam has burst

The Sun, Telegraph, Mail and Times cover the Reform leader less like a politician and more like a star

The press have gone big with Prince Harry's attack on antisemitism - but had less to say about his similar warnings on anti-Muslim hate

The online TV channel has been reprimanded by Ofcom for broadcasting claims the meteorologist simply makes up weather reports

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A shiny set of evenly-spaced gnashers used to be a sign of wealth and status. Not any more

Reform haven’t peaked – and their march to No 10 can only be stopped if we face up to why they're winning

The news is relentlessly bad – but, statistically speaking, things will have to get better at some point. Here are some positive thoughts to cling to amid the gloom

He started off as a nerdy bookseller with a love of spreadsheets. Now he’s ended up as a stony-faced, muscle-bound plutocrat, posing on the red carpet with the Kardashians.

The title of the Corporation’s new history podcast is remarkably similar to that of an indie show about the 1990s

A month after his lovely day out with Nigel Farage, the paper's political editor had a less-than-penetrating interview with Kemi Badenoch

The regulator is now probing the channel’s Donald Trump interview over “material misleadingness”

The chair of London’s Southbank Centre is facing more demands to be sacked over a selected excerpt of a video posted on social media

The paper - which campaigns against cancel culture - wants Misan Harriman ousted over a social media post

Has the Telegraph columnist been triggered by nasty school memories? Or does she just want a job on the Mail?

A new startup by the Silicon Valley money man will allow people to raise objections to stories in the press. A quick look at the targets of this new venture makes Thiel’s agenda all too clear

The party has taken out a three-page ad in a Mid Wales newspaper encouraging its readers to vote "in the London elections"

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Reform's deputy leader accused the regional paper of libel after it reported his verbatim views about a candidate who calls himself an "ethno-nationalist"

The Slovenian band used to satirise dictators. Now their targets are tech bros and algorithm-controlled music

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Antisemitism has become uniquely exempt from the moral clarity that progressive Britain applies to every other form of racism

Martina Bet once discovered that Tony Blair was the prime minister who set up the Supreme Court - and all to stymie Brexit 11 years later

Candidates for Nigel Farage's party were happy to criticise the wrongdoing of councillors - when they thought they represented another party

David Cameron promised to fix the lobbyists – but then he went off and became one. Despite all the promises, the rules are still porous and the watchdog is only part-time. Most of Britain’s lobbying goes on with no oversight or transparency

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