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    AFTER KEIR STARMER by @TomMcTague Over the past decade, no prime minister has served more than three years in power. Keir Starmer is far from the most disastrous of this bunch of prime ministers, and nor is he the shortest-serving. But of all of them, it is he who already seems
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    “Build, baby, build”, yes – but Andy Burnham’s “place first” politics will need more thought than that. Anoosh Chakelian: The road to Nowhereville
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    If Burnham really wants to overturn “forty years of neoliberalism”, New Labour may not be much help ideologically. But it offers a set of object lessons in how to govern effectively in pursuit of a clear goal – several of which the incoming leadership already seem to be
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    Strangers in our midst Colin Grant once more brings us the voices of the British migrant experience too often ignored By K Biswas
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    If you are expecting a dystopic satire on the convulsions to come, you will be disappointed – this series is something odder, sadder and sweeter than that. Sue can’t stand the robot at first – she names it Linda, after a sister she hated. She’s determined to send it back,
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    Aunt Sally is a game that’s played across an area stretching down from the Gloucestershire Cotswolds to the Vale of White Horse and the northern reaches of Berkshire. Its origin varies – invention by bored royalists in the Civil War, or as a rustic relic of pre-Victorian
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    Something isn’t right with Britain on a “structural level”. @TomMcTague says “you can feel it” on returning home from abroad.
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    'Can we just stop this stupid Marvel hero interpretation of the economy, which is, “Oh, you said the economy’s going to break, and you’re right. Well, you fix it, you fucking dick.” This isn’t Gary Stevenson saves the world here. I’m telling you what’s going to happen.' Gary
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    “Being Keir Starmer” was the worst thing Starmer did, according to poll. - @willydunn
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    According to an internal memo seen by the New Statesman, the Greens intend to make the case to left-wing voters that Mahmood’s economic ideas are the “polar opposite of what’s needed to balance wealth and power in this country”. The party also plans to highlight previous
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    In 2023, I was expecting Count Binface, my favourite novelty election candidate, ready for our interview to promote his new book-cum-manifesto, What On Earth? I was ready to be tickled pink with wry observations about “Recyclons” and Boris Bloody Johnson. But when the doorbell
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    It has been said that you can assess the worth of a literary work by the fullness of a culture’s response to it. The reverse is also true. You can assess a culture by the way it responds to a major literary work. There has been a revealing flurry of commentary about JD Salinger’s
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    The Catcher in the Rye still speaks to our profoundest desires
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    Today (18 July), South Africans are urged to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s birthday by performing 67 minutes of charitable acts, each to honour his 67 years of fighting for social justice. Mandela Day, as it has become known, is a somewhat manufactured (and corporate-sponsored)
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    Over the course of Andy Burnham’s 25 years in politics the man who is about to become prime minister has said little about foreign policy. Foreign leaders and diplomats tapping up contacts for information over the past few weeks have been left frustratingly short-changed. Will
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