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Mandrake – Vacant Chair
Edition 81 – January 2026
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Contents
In Edition 81 – January 2026
Edition 81 – January 2026 – Cover + Contents
1
Editorial – Sanctuary
2
Peter Oborne’s Diary – A Dangerous Sponsor
3
News In Brief – Cryptic Comments
4
‘Lies’ and the Lobby
5
That’s True Too – In Pursuit of Pluralism – Imagining the Possibilities
6
A Red Top Christmas Carol
7
For Better Or For Worse – A Boring, Violent Life
8
For Better Or For Worse – The Fallacy of the Mean
9
For Better Or For Worse – Reclaiming a Social Imagination
10
For Better Or For Worse – Dehumanising Invisibility Versus Insecure Visibility
11
Fun and Joy Are Very Powerful Political Forces
12
Beyond Nostalgia – The Left Needs a Lasting Vision Our Lost Society Can Latch On To
13
‘Hope for Cynics’ (and Everyone Else)
14
How the Light Gets In
15
‘History is Not History When It Is Happening’
16
How Britain Political-Media Machine Enabled Slaughter in Gaza
17
Nathan Gill Sentenced: The Tip of the Iceberg of Russia’s European Interference
18
Is Nigel Farage a Changed Man?
19
Normalise as a Neighbourly Concern
20
The ‘Pink Ladies’ Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
21
On the Record – The Truth About Nigel
22
Dinner with Mr Brexit
23
Jeffrey Epstein: Steve Bannon’s ‘Mr Fixer’
24
How Luxury Lost Its Lustre
25
‘Made In Britain’: A Crafted Future?
26
The Covid Inquiry – 230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment
27
Notes on Now – Berger Lives On
28
Mandrake – Vacant Chair
29
Letters – January 2026
30
Zeitgeisters – Caspar Henderson
31
Puzzle Solutions – Edition 81
32
The Upside Down – Small is Beautiful
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