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- Edition 73 – May 2025 – Cover + Contents
- ‘Labour Offers No Clear Narrative’: In the Shark-Infested Waters of Politics, Reform Is Circling
- A Rising Tide For Shareholders While Bill Payers Struggle to Stay Afloat: Who Owns Britain’s Water?
- The Elixir of Life Is In Danger
- ‘We Have Utterly Decimated Our Rivers’
- ‘The Wider Issues the Riots Were a Symptom of Must Remain on the Political Agenda’
- ‘To Imagine That A River Is Alive Causes Water to Glitter Differently’
- Adolescence May Have Created a ‘Cultural Moment’ But Our Conversations About Misogyny and Masculinity Are Missing the Mark
- Ecosystem Engineers: Welcoming Back Our Beavers
- Cultural Crisis: Why Can’t We Talk About the Water We Swim In?
- Editorial – The Need to Be Seen
- ‘There May Not Be Any Institutions Left to Rebuild – the Democrats Need to Project Confidence and Keep Fighting’
- Myth of the Month – Mr. Pink
- Do the Democrats Need Their Own Joe Rogan – Or Just a Compelling Argument?
- News In Brief – Niet Zero
- The Upside Down – Old Nick’s Game
- Editorial information
- The Silent Violence of Trump’s Second Term
- Peter Oborne's Diary – The Sycophants
- Being Braver Than We Want To Be
- Political Musings – Spring is Here
- On The Ground – Royal Flush
- High Court Case Brought Against Dan Wootton Over ‘Catfishing’
- Bad Press Awards – Janet Daley Scoops the Leopard Print Ribbon for Tragically Late Epiphanies
- Political Culture – Trump’s Tariffs: Starmer’s Moment of Danger and Opportunity
- Mandrake – Hacking Away
- ‘Turning A Blind Eye to Gaza is the Fatal Flaw in Starmer’s European Alternative to the Trump-Putin Axis’
- Blue Labour in the ‘MAGA Square’
- Keir Starmer’s ‘Elbows Down’ Approach to Power Is Winning Over His Enemies and Alienating His Voters
- Political Economy – Trump's Tariffs: The World's 'Liz Truss Moment'
- Notes on Now – An Absent Establishment
- ‘How Rapidly the Labour Government Has Been Disowned by the Liberal Left is Self-Indulgent and Irresponsible’
- ‘Living Through This Labour Government’s Benefits Cuts Is Brutal’
- From Grief To Grievance
- ‘This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’
- ‘Two-Tier’ Justice Or Two-Tier Punditry?
- ‘Legitimate Concerns’ and Root Causes: Have Lessons Been Learned From Last Summer's Riots?
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EDITION 73 – MAY 2025
the fuel for last year’s riots is still smouldering
James Bloodworth and Misbah Malik
IS LABOUR TAKING THE RIGHT TURN?
Martin Shaw, Jon Bloomfield, David Edgar, Adam Bienkov, Chris Grey and Penny Pepper