Outside the system
Section: Argument
Honestly held opinions and provocative argument based on current events or our recent reports.
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‘Why Fixers Who Help War Correspondents Deserve More Credit – And to Tell Their Own Stories’
The Afghan data leak has shed light on the role of interpreters and local journalists and why they deserve much better, argues Mathilda Mallinson
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‘What Trump’s Ukraine U-Turn Really Tells Us About His Psychology’
Trump’s shift from betraying Ukraine to turning on Putin reveals a lot about the man and his Presidency, argues George Llewelyn
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Bungs from Billionaires: Do Labour’s Political Funding Reforms Really Pass the ‘Musk Test’?
Josiah Mortimer investigates whether the Government’s new reforms will stop the likes of billionaire X owner Elon Musk from funnelling millions of dollars into British politics
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‘Giving the Vote to 16 Year Olds Is a Big Step Forward – Now Give It to Migrants Too’
The same arguments for extending the vote to younger people, should apply to other groups that remain disenfranchised too, argues Adam Ramsay
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‘The Government’s Call for Evidence on Islamophobia is a Rigged Box-Ticking Exercise’
Ministers are effectively blocking the voices of victims, while ‘soliciting those of the perpetrators’, argues the CEO of Muslim Engagement & Development, Linsay Taylor
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The New Left: Could a Jeremy Corbyn Led Party Really Break the Duopoly?
There are huge barriers to creating new parties of the left, but it just might be possible, argues Neal Lawson
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‘Keir Starmer Must Break His Silence on the Climate Crisis Driving the UK’s Extreme Temperatures’
Soaring temperatures are pushing us towards environmental crises that the Government is doing little to prepare us for, argues Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay
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Nigel Farage Says He Wants to Scrap the Two-Child Benefit Cap – But There’s Something He’s Not Telling You
The Reform leader needs to be reminded whose idea it was to push hundreds of thousands of children into poverty in the first place, writes Josiah Mortimer
