Outside the system
Category: UK Politics
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‘What Is the Point of Labour Winning the Next General Election if It Governs as Reform-Lite?’
The political strategy being pursued by Keir Starmer and his advisers means that whichever party comes first in 2029, Nigel Farage wins, argues Neal Lawson
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‘The Free Speech Debate Has a Lot to Do With Race – But the Media Won’t Tell You That’
The ‘sheer hypocrisy’ of the UK’s right-wing media in celebrating Trump’s ‘free speech ultimatum’
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Matt Hancock Intervened to Help Conservative Donor’s Pizza Firm Land Lucrative Covid PPE Contract
Two days before winning the contract, the company, which had no previous experience of supplying medical equipment, removed ‘pizza’ from its name
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‘The Culture War is Dead: Long Live the Culture War’
Julian Petley explains why the University of Sussex ‘freedom of expression’ case is so concerning
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Keir Starmer Urged to Seize a ‘Once in a Generation’ Opportunity for Real House of Lords Reform
The Prime Minister previously watered down his commitment to “abolish” Parliament’s unelected second chamber
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Woman Arrested in Fraud Investigation Linked to £25m ‘VIP’ Covid PPE Deal Referred by Conservative Minister
The director of the company awarded a multimillion pound Government contract was arrested on suspicion of fraud, conspiracy to cheat the public revenue and fraudulent evasion of income tax
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The Dead End of Keir Starmer’s ‘British Cars for British Workers’ Trump Cosplay
The Prime Minister’s attempts to embrace Trump-style rhetoric, while rejecting everything that rhetoric implies, risks making him look ridiculous, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘The Anti-Democratic Tyranny of the Office For Budget Responsibility’
A decades-long trend of outsourcing democratic decisions to unaccountable institutions like the OBR is leading Britain towards ruin, argues Neal Lawson
