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- Edition 87 – July 2026 – Cover + Contents
- Letters – July 2026
- Anthem of the North
- Mandelson and the New Statesman: How the ‘Soft PR’ Sausage Gets Made
- Peter Oborne's Diary – Dignified Silence
- On the Ground – Tackling Crypto-Politics
- Bad Press Awards – The Platinum-Plated Projector for Performative White Rage
- That's True Too – Leave to Remain
- ‘Hockney’s Art Was as Much an Intellectual Exercise as It Was an Expression of the Joy He Took From Being Alive’
- Burnham is a Giant Step Backwards to a Better Sort of British Politics
- ‘Anonymous Quotes’ and Political Journalists: How Spin Doctors Deceive the Public
- After Makerfield, the Answer Cannot be Managerial Politics with a Different Accent
- The Tyranny of Literacy: How Writing Only Scratches the Surface
- Makerfield: Can the ‘Politics of Place’ Offer an Antidote to the Poverty of Possibility?
- A Town that has Stood Still as the World has Moved On
- ‘The Real Radicalism the Moment Requires is at the Level of How the World Is Seen’
- Turning the Tide on the Rage Wave? Nigel Farage’s Explicit Politics of Race and Violence Could Cost Him
- Navigating Antisemitism in the Shadow of Israel’s Wars
- Zeitgeisters – Margaret Heffernan
- ‘The Odyssey’ Backlash: A Journey Between Strangeness and Familiarity
- A Letter from America – The Machine that Eats Elections
- Northern Ireland’s Enduring Problem With Sectarian Violence
- Puzzle Solutions – Edition 87
- Half Man: ‘We’re Beginning to Get a Better, Much More Nuanced Understanding… Vulnerability is a Part of Masculinity Now’
- The Upside Down – Eye of Newt
- Brexit: Ten Long Years of Bitterness
- How to Stop Billionaires Buying British Politics
- On the Record – Not Music to My Ears
- St George and the Saltire: Flagging Up the Differences