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- Edition 76 – August 2025 – Cover + Contents
- Will This Be A European Moment?
- Trump’s European Revolution
- ‘The Great Reset’ Europe Trims to the Trumpian Winds
- ‘Europe has to Give Up Its Freudian Denial About What’s Happening in the United States and Mobilise’
- Europe’s Rule of Law Can No Longer Expect to Live Under the American Umbrella
- The Philosophical Shock of the Bomb – and the Digital Worlds it Helped Build
- What Have Politicians Got To Do with the Price of Fish?
- Lord Heseltine – ‘Nigel Farage, Let’s Not Mince Our Language, Is Mr Trump’s Vicar in England’
- ‘The Campaign to Rejoin the EU Must Never Stop’
- The Brexit Revolution and the Power of the ‘Betrayal Myth’
- From American Support to Scorn: the Continent Needs to Up its Game
- The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation
- Claims That Online Misinformation Fears Are Overblown Radically Understate the Scale of the Threat
- The ‘Madmen’ of Politics Provide No Explanation for Our Age of Chaos
- ‘Give Me Your Undesirables, Your Disloyal, Your Foreign-Born Masses’
- Notes on Now – Starmer’s Lack of Vision
- Worth Reduced to Work: A Disabled Person’s Experience of the Welfare Cuts Debacle
- ‘The Moment We Assess Human Value by Ability, Productivity or Achievement, We Lose Our Humanity Itself’
- ‘When Charity Becomes the Default Response to Poverty, It Risks Normalising Deprivation’
- In Absurdia – A 'Critical' Eye
- Mandrake – Hereditary Fears Disappear
- Diaspora Dinners: Repaired Shepherd's Pie
- Editorial – Carving Up a Baked World
- On the Ground – Peers on the Authoritarian Payroll
- Peter Oborne's Diary – An Unintelligent Intervention
- The Film that Changed My Life: Bonnie Greer on ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’
- Bad Press Awards – The Cadmium Coin Purse for Utterly Ridiculous Outrage
- Zeitgeisters – Dionne Brand
- One Year of Labour: More Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Told You About
- Letters
- Police Suggest Reform UK’s Darren Grimes Lied to Constituents Over Not Holding Local Surgeries
- Resignations, Cancelled Meetings, Climate Changes and Culture Wars: How Reform UK Councils Are Descending Into Chaos
- ‘The Liberal Centre Must Find a Different, More Honest and Realistic Way to Talk About Immigration’
- Another Future Is Still Possible for Keir Starmer’s Government
- Political Musings – Rebellion! Tantrums! Tears!
- Ed Davey: ‘Media Coverage? It’s a Lot Easier If You’re Prepared to Say Awful Stuff’
- Sonia Purnell's Perspectives – From its agrarian past, Ireland has emerged from the shadow
- ‘The UK Government has taken its strongest action not against the Israeli Government, but against that Government’s opponents’
- Life in the Plasticene
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‘When Charity Becomes the Default Response to Poverty, It Risks Normalising Deprivation’
Nick Gardham of Community Organisers – the non-profit membership and training body for community organising in England – sets out why alternative systems of support in local areas have to be seen as a means not an end
Mandrake – Hereditary Fears Disappear
It was payday for a great many of Keir Starmer’s Camden cronies, party donors, and other Labour place men and women when he dished out peerages for them shortly after he became Prime Minister.