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Blue Labour in the ‘MAGA Square’

Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar explore the national-populist tendencies of the Labour Government
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Keir Starmer’s ‘Elbows Down’ Approach to Power Is Winning Over His Enemies and Alienating His Voters

It’s not just the demands of the domestic right that the Prime Minister has seemingly bent to – but the global right too, writes Adam Bienkov
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A Rising Tide For Shareholders While Bill Payers Struggle to Stay Afloat: Who Owns Britain’s Water?

A Rising Tide For Shareholders While Bill Payers Struggle to Stay Afloat: Who Owns Britain’s Water? Iain Overton reports on the hidden foreign profiteers behind the UK’s most essential utility Britain’s water industry appears to be at breaking point. Leaking pipes, record sewage spills, and mounting public outrage over soaring bills will have left many…
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Private Correspondence Reveals How David Cameron Helped Old Etonian School Friend Fast-Track COVID Testing Firm

Emails released to Byline Times reveal the close connections between senior Conservatives and those prioritised for multimillion pound COVID contracts
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Political Culture – Trump’s Tariffs: Starmer’s Moment of Danger and Opportunity

For one week after Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ on 2 April – when he introduced tariffs on worldwide imports ranging from 10% to 50% – the alarms flashed red on the US economy.
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The Beginning of the End or ‘Trump 2028’? 100 Days of an Unprecedented Presidency

There may be a far more sinister motive for Donald Trump to go as far as to try to violate the constitutional ban on running for a third term, writes Washington-based Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘Trump’s War on Academic Institutions Is Even Worse Than You Think’

This is the greatest assault on academic freedoms in generations, argues Emma DeSouza
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Reform UK Facebook Groups Are Full of Racist Far Right Posts and Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories

Groups set up by Reform UK officials contain posts calling for Muslims to be lynched and suggestions that Jewish people are trying to “dilute out country with foreign invaders”
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Labour’s Pledge to Recruit New Teachers Not Enough to Prevent ‘Serious Shortage’

Despite the new Government giving teachers a 5.5% pay rise last year – pay is still one of the key reasons for recruitment failures, the Department for Education said
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How a ‘Populist’ Media Has Mainstreamed the Far Right

Right-wing daily papers in the UK do not represent ‘public opinion’ – they simply reflect the radical right views of those ‘who own and run them’, argues Julian Petley
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How the BBC’s Flawed Impartiality Scuppered a Podcast About a Heating System











