Outside the system
Section: Argument
Honestly held opinions and provocative argument based on current events or our recent reports.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – The Sycophants
You didn’t have to be Nostradamus to know that the Trump presidency would lead to calamity. All you needed to do was read his speeches and study his record. It was all there – including the catastrophic tariffs. Yet, Britain’s most famous newspapers, along with two former prime ministers, hailed him as world saviour.
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Mandrake – Hacking Away
The Telegraph looks like an unsellable property in an estate agents’ window – Chelsea FC co-owner Todd Boehly is the latest to be shown round.
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Myth of the Month – Mr. Pink
Otto English Myth of the Month Mr Pink Though it sat on the edge of an ever-expanding new town, the Essex village where I grew up in the 1970s still had tangible traces of the county’s rural past. The high street, with its four pubs, post office, and butcher, looked like it had sprung fresh…
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‘Turning A Blind Eye to Gaza is the Fatal Flaw in Starmer’s European Alternative to the Trump-Putin Axis’
If European leaders are to build a broad resistance to ‘America First’ aggression on the world stage, they must bring Palestine into equal focus with Ukraine, writes Martin Shaw
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‘How Rapidly the Labour Government Has Been Disowned by the Liberal Left is Self-Indulgent and Irresponsible’
Keir Starmer has made more right calls than wrong – but his critics are too quick to forget the corruption and chaos of the Conservative Governments that came before him, writes Chris Grey
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‘Living Through This Labour Government’s Benefits Cuts Is Brutal’
Cutting disability benefits will do nothing but heighten the scapegoating of disabled people once again. Penny Pepper asks how can a Labour Government introduce such a punitive measure?
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‘The Wider Issues the Riots Were a Symptom of Must Remain on the Political Agenda’
On 29 July 2024, news broke of a horrific attack at a dance workshop in Southport in which three young girls were murdered. In January, Axel Rudakubana was sentenced to a minimum of 52 years for the killings.
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‘Labour Offers No Clear Narrative’: In the Shark-Infested Waters of Politics, Reform Is Circling
Labour MP Clive Lewis – who recently introduced the unsuccessful Water Bill calling for the mutualisation of water companies that cause consistent environmental damage – explains why he believes his own party’s Government is falling far short of the transformation the UK’s public services require
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‘Two-Tier’ Justice Or Two-Tier Punditry?
By 7pm on 30 July 2024, small groups of white men had begun to congregate outside one of Southport’s mosques. Some were wearing hoodies and masks
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‘Legitimate Concerns’ and Root Causes: Have Lessons Been Learned From Last Summer’s Riots?
Last summer, a motley crew of influencers and populists sought to recast the thugs rampaging through towns and cities as a democratic revolt from below. Though they largely failed in this endeavour – a majority of the public displayed little sympathy towards the rioters – it would be naive to bet against further outbreaks of…
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Political Economy – Trump’s Tariffs: The World’s ‘Liz Truss Moment’
Simon Nixon’s PoliticalEconomy Trump’s Tariffs: The World’s ‘Liz Truss Moment’ It is extraordinary to think that it is less than a decade since the UK chose to gamble its prosperity on the stability of the global rules-based trading system and America’s willingness to continue to underpin it. Ahead of the EU Referendum, the Le
