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- Edition 74 – June 2025 – Cover + Contents
- Political Musings – Labour Is Obsessed With Change
- Sonia Purnell's Perspectives – The obsessive short-termism and insularity of our political class
- The Storehouse of Truth or Lies?
- ‘We Need Psychological Herd Immunity to Create a Resilient Social Media Society’
- ‘Real Democracy Can Counter Division and Hate’
- Mandrake – Sunshine State Benefits
- ‘The Problem With Misinformation Is the Problem With Information’
- ‘Where Once There Was God, Now There Is Code’: The Lure of Life In The Matrix
- Science Fiction Gets to Truths Journalism Misses
- Falling for Farage
- Notes on Now – It Was the City of the Future
- A Coalition of Contradictions: Who Is Voting for Reform?
- The Bitter After-Taste of the Candy Man’s Conspiracy
- Disappointment in Dartford –Triumph for Reform
- Don’t Mention Trump
- The Trump Bump Becomes the Trump Slump
- ‘In These TikTok Times, Nigel Farage Knows Personality Trumps Trust’
- Why aren’t the Greens shooting through?
- ‘Starmer Did Not Need to Manufacture Unpopularity For Its Own Sake – Now Farage Waits in the Wings’
- Low Voter Turnout Challenges Populists’ Claims to Speak For the ‘Silent Majority’
- Political Economy – ‘UK’s Trade Deals Show How the World is Evolving in Response to the Trump Shock’
- Zeitgeisters – Rebecca Solnit
- Myth of the Month – Tall Tales
- The Kindness of Strangers
- The Tribunal of Truth: Byline Times Joins Press Regulator
- News In Brief – Catching Up With Old Friends
- Peter Oborne's Diary – Return of the Oligarchs
- Bad Press Awards: Melanie Phillips Wins the Mirror Ball for Opinion Writing Self-Regard
- The Upside Down – Monkey Magic
- How the BBC’s Flawed Approach to Impartiality Scuppered a Podcast About a Heating System
- The British Political-Media Class’ Mainstreaming of the Populist Radical-Right
- Can Journalism and Democracy Survive Social Media?
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Sonia Purnell's Perspectives – The obsessive short-termism and insularity of our political class
‘The obsessive short-termism and insularity of our political class, who foolishly no longer see historical context as instructive’