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Can NATO survive without America? Experts say the military alliance may become ‘dormant’ - and a European army remains just a pipe dream, writes @rostaylor.bsky.social

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An unfortunate headline by the local newspaper behemoth led readers to fear the worst for the celebrity chef

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GB News is not even pretending it isn't Putin-friendly any more. Is that why Boris Johnson has yet to clock in for his first shift?

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By palling up with populists and parroting their talking points, the leader has taken the Tories down a slippery slope to extremism

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The former prime minister has been reduced to giving interviews to obscure US YouTubers with a handful of viewers

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The normally talkative party have little to say on America’s abandonment of Zelensky and the western alliance. Why?

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Trump has shafted Ukraine. Now he threatens the security of the west

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Nigel Farage's long-awaited update to his party's ownership structure has marginalised his deputy even further

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The far right rabble-rouser claims to have been stopped from getting "the only channel he watches" in his prison cell

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The former prime minister is hardly on his uppers, but is charging a pretty penny for a keepsake snap

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The British new editor of Washington's premier political newsletter is experiencing a bumpy start

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Sadiq Khan and the Brexit brick wall Another worthwhile intervention on youth mobility from London’s mayor will be ignored by his own party

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Solitude and flatlining social mobility are shuttering millions into a network of conspiracies and grievance. We need new strategies to break them out

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The Conservative leader is being tipped for the chop. Fortunately for her it's by Mystic Nads, British politics' most reliably hopeless predictor of the future

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How can the chancellor afford increased defence spending without tax rises or public service cuts? There is one way out

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The Conservative peer remembers Margaret Thatcher's election vividly, despite being seven years old and living in Peru at the time

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Undoing the damage done by leaving the EU is like crossing a fast-flowing stream. It must be done in one jump

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Rupert Lowe claimed a photo showed how migrants were abusing Brits' hospitality - until an eagle-eyed member of M&S staff spotted something odd

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"Nothing about Vance’s speech could be described as “useful”. That leaves only one word left."

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The vice president’s arrogant and counterproductive rant in Munich was a lesson in hypocrisy

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The industry is split about Reform’s leader appearing at their rallies against inheritance tax

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Reform's deputy leader presumably expected an easy ride being interviewed by the right wing hack - but was left looking foolish

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The Reform MP sought to mock his neighbours' lack of Commons contributions, but only highlighted how little his leader has done

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Eighty years ago, the Allies rained down hell on the city, one of Germany’s cultural capitals

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Local councils are struggling. But not the Shetland Islands, with a population 1/17 the size of Croydon’s. What North Sea oil did for the Shetlands. My piece for @theneweuropean.bsky.social this week. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/ros-taylor-t...

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Three steps to help Starmer beat reform: ✔️ Major, nationally co-ordinated crackdown on the crimes people care about ✔️ Set and achieve an economic migration target ✔️ Single Digital ID https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/paul-mason-three-steps-to-help-starmer-beat-reform/

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This Munich moment means Starmer must borrow to rearm, then forge stronger ties with the EU

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In backing Nato membership for the war-torn country, the Reform leader is upsetting his allies and alienating supporters

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A Leave-voting fisheries owner from the red wall was invited to praise Brexit – but told the channel it had been a disaster for his business

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The populist commentator’s book on UK universities is filled with unoriginal argument, cherry-picked evidence and enormous self-regard. If he truly believes what he’s written, the only suitable response is pity

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"Not being directly allied with either Trump or von der Leyen might give us some room for manoeuvre, but really very little."

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The president seems to think his policies will make America more economically dominant. In reality, he’s running an enormous risk with the US’s reputation – and its currency

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A diet of topics plucked from the pages of the Daily Mail and Telegraph is leading the Conservative leader down a dead end

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The Reform MP has tabled a staggering 816 written questions to ministers since being elected an MP. How much is it costing the taxpayer?

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The president and his acolytes are creating a whole new way of running a country – and this is only the beginning

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Joining in with Europe’s retaliation over steel import taxes would be self-defeating - but there’s a risk involved

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As the country heads towards a Russian-style autocracy, the website is pushing it as an 'undiscovered gastronomic haven of £2 wine'

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NEW PODCAST EPISODE OUT NOW Everything humans need to know about Artificial Intelligence – with @parmy.bsky.social Listen to @thetwomatts.bsky.social here:

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Three Reform councillors were 'honoured' to have officially opened a new supermarket - except, er, they didn't

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The White House’s destruction of USAID is a callous, catastrophic mistake that will damage America as well as the world

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The columnist has launched another attack on those who still back Brexit - which includes his own employer

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By offering the same old rhetoric on benefits, migrants and spending, Keir Starmer looks like the continuity Sunak

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If coupled with actual delivery of better arrangements with the EU, Reform’s weakness on Brexit is fertile ground

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The capital's once evening title continues its journey rightwards with an ingratiating interview with the Reform leader

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His plan to redevelop Gaza is horrifying and absurd. But the strip is a warzone of rubble and bodies – if not his plan, then what? Words by Lynne O'Donnell

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NEW PODCAST EPISODE OUT NOW🚨 Donald Trump: Clueless in Gaza Listen to The Two Matts here:

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The Reform leader continues to make a fortune from interests which have nothing to do with serving his constituents in Clacton

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The GB News presenter has launched an astonishingly catty attack on her retiring Sky rival

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The man who played Freddie Mercury stuns in an Oedipus revival

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