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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
FREE FROM FEAR OR FAVOUR
EDITION 76 – AUGUST 2025
In This Edition
In This EditionHighlights
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The Cost of Lies: Why We Identify With Deadly Misinformation
From Covid to climate change, understanding the role unevidenced conspiracy theories fulfil for individual and social identity in a shifting world can help explain our ‘post-truth’ age, writes Hardeep Matharu
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‘The Moment We Assess Human Value by Ability, Productivity or Achievement, We Lose Our Humanity Itself’
Stephen Unwin shares an extract from his new book exploring all he has learned on the journey so far with with his son Joey, who has severe learning disabilities
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The Film that Changed My Life: Bonnie Greer on ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’
Filmed in blazing Technicolor, and starring Errol Flynn as Robin Hood, this film came like an explosion into my life.
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Ed Davey: ‘Media Coverage? It’s a Lot Easier If You’re Prepared to Say Awful Stuff’
Adam Bienkov meets the leader of Britain’s ‘silent majority’, who may not achieve the same headlines as his rivals, but believes the Liberal Democrats are building real support with those who matter – voters
Martin Rowson’s cartoon
Investigations, Analysis, Reports and Columns
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Will This Be A European Moment?
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Trump’s European Revolution
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‘The Great Reset’ Europe Trims to the Trumpian Winds
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‘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
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The Philosophical Shock of the Bomb – and the Digital Worlds it Helped Build
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What Have Politicians Got To Do with the Price of Fish?
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Lord Heseltine – ‘Nigel Farage, Let’s Not Mince Our Language, Is Mr Trump’s Vicar in England’
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‘The Campaign to Rejoin the EU Must Never Stop’
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The Brexit Revolution and the Power of the ‘Betrayal Myth’
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From American Support to Scorn: the Continent Needs to Up its Game
-
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
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Worth Reduced to Work: A Disabled Person’s Experience of the Welfare Cuts Debacle
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‘When Charity Becomes the Default Response to Poverty, It Risks Normalising Deprivation’
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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
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Bad Press Awards – The Cadmium Coin Purse for Utterly Ridiculous Outrage
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Zeitgeisters – Dionne Brand
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One Year of Labour: More Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Told You About
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Letters
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Police Suggest Reform UK’s Darren Grimes Lied to Constituents Over Not Holding Local Surgeries
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Resignations, Cancelled Meetings, Climate Changes and Culture Wars: How Reform UK Councils Are Descending Into Chaos
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‘The Liberal Centre Must Find a Different, More Honest and Realistic Way to Talk About Immigration’
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Another Future Is Still Possible for Keir Starmer’s Government
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Political Musings – Rebellion! Tantrums! Tears!
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Sonia Purnell’s Perspectives – From its agrarian past, Ireland has emerged from the shadow
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‘The UK Government has taken its strongest action not against the Israeli Government, but against that Government’s opponents’
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Life in the Plasticene