In Edition 76 – August 2025
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Edition 76 – August 2025 – Cover + Contents
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1Editorial – Carving Up a Baked World
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2On the Ground – Peers on the Authoritarian Payroll
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3Peter Oborne’s Diary – An Unintelligent Intervention
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4Bad Press Awards – The Cadmium Coin Purse for Utterly Ridiculous Outrage
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5One Year of Labour: More Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Told You About
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6Letters
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7Police Suggest Reform UK’s Darren Grimes Lied to Constituents Over Not Holding Local Surgeries
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8Resignations, Cancelled Meetings, Climate Changes and Culture Wars: How Reform UK Councils Are Descending Into Chaos
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9‘The Liberal Centre Must Find a Different, More Honest and Realistic Way to Talk About Immigration’
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10Another Future Is Still Possible for Keir Starmer’s Government
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11Political Musings – Rebellion! Tantrums! Tears!
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12Ed Davey: ‘Media Coverage? It’s a Lot Easier If You’re Prepared to Say Awful Stuff’
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13Sonia Purnell’s Perspectives – From its agrarian past, Ireland has emerged from the shadow
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14‘The UK Government has taken its strongest action not against the Israeli Government, but against that Government’s opponents’
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15Will This Be A European Moment?
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16Trump’s European Revolution
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17‘The Great Reset’ Europe Trims to the Trumpian Winds
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18‘Europe has to Give Up Its Freudian Denial About What’s Happening in the United States and Mobilise’
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19Europe’s Rule of Law Can No Longer Expect to Live Under the American Umbrella
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20The Philosophical Shock of the Bomb – and the Digital Worlds it Helped Build
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21What Have Politicians Got To Do with the Price of Fish?
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22Lord Heseltine – ‘Nigel Farage, Let’s Not Mince Our Language, Is Mr Trump’s Vicar in England’
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23‘The Campaign to Rejoin the EU Must Never Stop’
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24The Brexit Revolution and the Power of the ‘Betrayal Myth’
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25From American Support to Scorn: the Continent Needs to Up its Game
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26The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation
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27Claims That Online Misinformation Fears Are Overblown Radically Understate the Scale of the Threat
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28The ‘Madmen’ of Politics Provide No Explanation for Our Age of Chaos
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29‘Give Me Your Undesirables, Your Disloyal, Your Foreign-Born Masses’
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30Notes on Now – Starmer’s Lack of Vision
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31Worth Reduced to Work: A Disabled Person’s Experience of the Welfare Cuts Debacle
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32‘The Moment We Assess Human Value by Ability, Productivity or Achievement, We Lose Our Humanity Itself’
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33‘When Charity Becomes the Default Response to Poverty, It Risks Normalising Deprivation’
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34In Absurdia – A ‘Critical’ Eye
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35Mandrake – Hereditary Fears Disappear
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36Diaspora Dinners: Repaired Shepherd’s Pie
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37The Film that Changed My Life: Bonnie Greer on ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’
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38Zeitgeisters – Dionne Brand
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39Life in the Plasticene
