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“The EU has no credibility [on tech],” he said. “They haven’t produced a single consequential tech company other than [the Dutch supplier for semiconductors] ASML,” he said. 🗣️ Freddie Hayward meets Ro Khanna

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“How many heads have to roll before people remember who the PM is?” one previously loyal MP asks. 🖊️ @georgeeaton.bsky.social: Labour’s vicious blame game

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An George Orwell special: Four archive pieces from and about the great man, on the week of his birthday, 75 years after his death.

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"Israel has now spent almost two years immolating the Gaza Strip without achieving its stated aims of destroying Hamas and installing a pliant administration." 🖊️ Oliver Eagleton: Imperial calculations

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The Soas Liberated Zone is offering the London university’s students a different kind of educational experience. 🖊️ Lamorna Ash: The pro-Palestine movement's alternative campus

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The Italian prime minister’s autobiography revises her and her country’s history. But Meloni’s success is a template for right populist movements everywhere. 🖊️ David Broder: Giorgia Meloni’s selective memory

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The hype behind an alternative left-wing party is just that: hype. 🖊️ @bwalker.uk: The phantom threat of Corbyn 2.0

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The Deputy PM gets caught in the party’s divisions over benefit cuts. PMQs review: Angela Rayner cannot stop Labour’s welfare crisis

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Cutting welfare benefits could create an electoral situation so dire that 230 Labour MPs lose their seats. 🖊️ David Littlefair: These disability benefit cuts are about to bury Labour

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Inside Labour’s welfare revolt Keir Starmer’s political authority is now on the line. 🖊️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social

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EXC: Polling shared with the New Statesman shows a “new Corbyn-led party” would win 10 per cent of the vote, reducing Labour’s share from 23 to 20 per cent - putting it level with Badenoch’s Conservatives. By @georgeeaton.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

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The Labour Party appears to be losing its mind 🖊️ Jonathan Rutherford: A radical new covenant must be made with the British people. www.newstatesman.com/politi...

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"I don’t want to defend a wedding between Bezos, a force of cosmic darkness, and Sánchez, a woman who has never worn an item of clothing that fits. But I must." 🖊️ @finnmcredmond.bsky.social on Jeff Bezos www.newstatesman.com/cultur...

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"Tuesday sex” –average weekday sex that isn’t great and isn’t crap either – is the stuff of life. www.newstatesman.com/cultur...

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The Tories too often give the impression that they think Reform is right but people should not vote for them. 🖊️ @DavidGauke.bsky.social: Is the centre right doomed?

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Trump and Netanyahu have forced European governments into a precarious position. 🌎 Alex Clarkson

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Pressure from the Labour welfare rebels is mounting. Is the government about to drop Liz Kendall's welfare reform bill? 🖊️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politi...

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Farage and Badenoch’s Iran headache What does it mean to be an opposition party in a time of geopolitical turmoil? 📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @RMCunliffe.bsky.social

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Sarah Finch's victory in the Supreme Court last summer sunk billions of pounds worth of oil and gas projects. 🗣️ Harry Clarke-Ezzidio meets the woman who bested Big Oil

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Can a musical about flights of creativity survive a setting of earthbound realism? 🎸 Kate Mossman on Stereophonic: all the sex, drugs, tears and boredom of true rock ’n’ roll

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Can the ceasefire hold? Washington, Tehran and Jerusalem still have choices to make about whether to strike again. 🌎 David Blagden

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A largely symbolic attack on the US's Al Udaid air base in Qatar raises the prospect that Tehran might be looking for an off-ramp. 🖊️ @katiestallard.bsky.social: Iran strikes back

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Proscribing the group may only increase its popularity. 🖊️ @georgemonaghan.bsky.social: Welcome to hot Palestine Action summer

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The Health Secretary has vowed to overhaul the NHS’s most scandalous service. 🖊️ @hannahsbee.bsky.social: Wes Streeting’s maternity revolution

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The Prime Minister is unable to offer either outright support or criticism of the US’s strikes on Iran. 📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social: Donald Trump has left Keir Starmer stranded

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A Harrods-only Pride and Prejudice perfume profanes our greatest novelist. 📕 Freya Graham: Smells like Jane Austen

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"The Danes do not try to debate immigration with their working class voters." 🖊️ David Littlefair: Should Labour copy the Danish Social Democrats on migration?

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"He has forced a reckoning for the Iranian regime – that will be quietly welcomed by many in the region and beyond – abandon your nuclear ambitions, or cease to exist." 🌎 @katiestallard.bsky.social: How Donald Trump plunged America into a blind war

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Ben Walker: Britain wants no part in Israel's war Voters, for the most part, want to give this part of the world as wide a berth as possible, writes @bwalker.uk

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Attacked from above and below, Iran’s surpreme leader may not survive. Abbas Milani: Ayatollah Khamenei faces a nuclear nightmare

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At first glance, it’s hard to see what a porn actress who specialises in taking depravity to new heights, and a former kickboxer who teaches that women are objects would have to talk about. Not unless they admit they’re in the exact same game, anyway.

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At first glance, it’s hard to see what a porn actress who specialises in taking depravity to new heights, and a former kickboxer who teaches that women are objects would have to talk about. Not unless they admit they’re in the exact same game, anyway.

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Showrooms for ugly, dangerous cars will fall quiet; galleries for gaudy, laughable art will have to reconsider their value propositions. But the rest of us might benefit, thanks to the property market.

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At first glance, it’s hard to see what a porn actress who specialises in taking depravity to new heights, and a former kickboxer who teaches that women are objects would have to talk about. Not unless they admit they’re in the exact same game, anyway.

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Maybe shopping in Harrods and driving a Lamborghini leaves you feeling empty? Who cares. They’re off to Dubai. Before the government U-turns again, it should ask whether anyone will miss them.

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Maybe shopping in Harrods and driving a Lamborghini leaves you feeling empty? Who cares. They’re off to Dubai. Before the government U-turns again, it should ask whether anyone will miss them.

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Showrooms for ugly, dangerous cars will fall quiet; galleries for gaudy, laughable art will have to reconsider their value propositions. But the rest of us might benefit, thanks to the property market.

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Maybe shopping in Harrods and driving a Lamborghini leaves you feeling empty? Who cares. They’re off to Dubai. Before the government U-turns again, it should ask whether anyone will miss them.

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At first glance, it’s hard to see what a porn actress who specialises in taking depravity to new heights, and a former kickboxer who teaches that women are objects would have to talk about. Not unless they admit they’re in the exact same game, anyway.

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Showrooms for ugly, dangerous cars will fall quiet; galleries for gaudy, laughable art will have to reconsider their value propositions. But the rest of us might benefit, thanks to the property market.

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At first glance, it’s hard to see what a porn actress who specialises in taking depravity to new heights, and a former kickboxer who teaches that women are objects would have to talk about. Not unless they admit they’re in the exact same game, anyway.

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Edward Burra’s tour of the 20th century The English painter’s relish for subcultures took him across genres and continents. 🖼️ Michael Prodger

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The political visions of Westminster’s most influential intellectual are wracked by elemental forces. 🖊️ @nickpaulharris.bsky.social on Dominic Cummings: oracle of the new British berserk

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Will Iran inflict oil inflation on the West? The country has little to lose by restricting shipping and triggering an energy price shock. 🌎 @willdunn.bsky.social

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Trump has learned dangerous lessons from other strongmen. 🌎 Katie Stallard: The cosplay dictator

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"Perhaps he does not believe in God. But he does believe in history." Living by the sword: The history that shapes Benjamin Netanyahu. By Joshua Leifer

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The Minnesota murders are the latest to emerge from the American right's thuggish fantasy-world. 🖊️ @JillFilipovic.bsky.social

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PMQs review: The grooming gangs scandal continues to shake Parliament Angela Rayner and Chris Philp traded blows on the gangs, migration and house building. 🖊️ @RMCunliffe.bsky.social

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Why is Kemi Badenoch making the grooming gangs about herself? Grooming survivors have accused the Conservative leader of “political point-scoring”. 🖊️ Anoosh Chakelian

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Vanessa Bell, the mother of British modernism A new biography puts the painter a new podium: not as overlooked sister or lover of artists, but matriarch of the Bloomsbury Group. 🖼️ Alice Vincent

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