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- Edition 77 – September 2025 – Cover + Contents
- Editorial – The Interregnum
- Letters – September 2025
- News In Brief – Immigration Hypocrisy
- Peter Oborne's Diary – An Annual Ritual
- On the Ground – Trump's 'Good Friends'
- Bad Press Awards – The Copper-Plated Comma for Convenient Quotes
- Mandrake – Slow Responders
- ‘Adapting to the Climate Crisis Needs to be Done in Ways that Tackle Inequality at the Same Time’
- The New Left Party That Didn’t Need to Happen
- Starmer and The Sun: An Appointment That Shows Everything That Is Wrong with Power and the Press in Britain
- How The Media Creates the World We Live In
- Notes on Now – When the Ideas of Modern Democracy Were Born
- Reform Uncovered: Durham County Council Removes Pride and Ukraine Flags on Leader’s Whim
- Reform Uncovered: Kent County Council’s ‘Misleading’ DOLGE Report Based on Ex-Reform Chairman’s Tweets
- Reform Uncovered: ‘Clickbait and Chaos’ – 100 days of Reform-Run Kent County Council
- Reform Uncovered: Reform UK Tells Prospective Candidates Who Previously Failed Vetting Procedures to Re-apply Under New ‘Common Sense’ Rules
- Reform Uncovered: West Northamptonshire Council Bans All Mentions of Climate Change – While Continuing to Take Government’s Green Funds
- Going After the ‘Invaders’ – A Protest in Portsmouth
- Who, Really, Are the ‘Left Behinds’?
- Sonia Purnell's Perspectives – ‘The Anti-Britain Propaganda is Clearly Working … Where is the Prime Minister’s Vision of this Green, Pleasant and Multicultural Land?’
- Clive Lewis MP: ‘I Never Thought I’d Hear Myself Say I Think My Party is Making this Country Weaker in Preparation for an Authoritarian-Right Government’
- ‘Lawless Britain’ A Racist Myth that has Engulfed the Media and Political Right
- ‘These People Can’t Stand What London Represents … It Makes a Mockery of their Entire Worldview
- Beyond Division ‘Multicultural Nationalism’ and the White Working-Class
- ‘Campaigning for a Curriculum Rooted in Our Communities’
- Political Economy: ‘Some in Europe Are Starting to Fear the Continent Has Entered Its Own Century of Humiliation’
- European Ruling on Russian Interference Creates More Questions Than Answers
- ‘A Mistake of Historic Proportions’ – But America’s Former Ambassador to Ukraine Believes It’s ‘Never Over’ When It Comes to the United States
- Jeffrey Epstein’s Russian ‘Tech Maidens’
- Hating the ‘Deep State’ More Than Loving Donald Trump: MAGA and the Epstein Affair
- The Next Wave: How Religious Extremism is Reclaiming Power
- The Grave that Lives Inside Him
- ‘I Don’t Have Many Male Friends Because Every Time They’re Misogynistic and Sexist I Tell Them to F*ck Off’
- The UK’s Complicity in Saudi Sportswashing
- Diaspora Dinners: Hot-Smoked Trout, Dill-Butter Potatoes and Quick-Pickle Cucumber
- The Film that Changed My Life: Clare Farrell on ‘My Dinner with Andre’
- Puzzle Solutions – Edition 77
- The Upside Down – Without the Beetles
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EDITION 77 – SEPTEMBER 2025
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In This EditionHighlights
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Starmer and The Sun: An Appointment That Shows Everything That Is Wrong with Power and the Press in Britain
The Prime Minister has signalled the direction of his Government by appointing a former Editor of The Sun – who has a criminal conviction under the Sexual Offences Act – as a communications advisor, writes Emma Jones
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Going After the ‘Invaders’ – A Protest in Portsmouth
Across the country hotels housing asylum seekers have become a flashpoint for the far-right and those angry about immigration. Beyond the media headlines, the dark and dangerous ideology underpinning much of the unrest needs to be taken seriously. James Bloodworth reports
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The Grave that Lives Inside Him
In August, five Al Jazeera journalists were killed in a targeted Israeli strike in Gaza. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 186 journalists have been confirmed as killed since the start of October 2023. Rana Sabbagh reports on the life of a Palestinian journalist she keeps in regular contact with – for whom journalism…
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‘I Don’t Have Many Male Friends Because Every Time They’re Misogynistic and Sexist I Tell Them to F*ck Off’
They love to focus on the ethnicity of the perpetrators and the failures of the authorities – all of which is an issue. But they don’t want to focus on the fact that it is men.
Martin Rowson’s cartoon
Investigations, Analysis, Reports and Columns
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Editorial – The Interregnum
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Letters – September 2025
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News In Brief – Immigration Hypocrisy
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – An Annual Ritual
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On the Ground – Trump’s ‘Good Friends’
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Bad Press Awards – The Copper-Plated Comma for Convenient Quotes
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Mandrake – Slow Responders
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‘Adapting to the Climate Crisis Needs to be Done in Ways that Tackle Inequality at the Same Time’
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The New Left Party That Didn’t Need to Happen
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How The Media Creates the World We Live In
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Notes on Now – When the Ideas of Modern Democracy Were Born
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Reform Uncovered: Durham County Council Removes Pride and Ukraine Flags on Leader’s Whim
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Reform Uncovered: Kent County Council’s ‘Misleading’ DOLGE Report Based on Ex-Reform Chairman’s Tweets
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Reform Uncovered: ‘Clickbait and Chaos’ – 100 days of Reform-Run Kent County Council
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Reform Uncovered: Reform UK Tells Prospective Candidates Who Previously Failed Vetting Procedures to Re-apply Under New ‘Common Sense’ Rules
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Reform Uncovered: West Northamptonshire Council Bans All Mentions of Climate Change – While Continuing to Take Government’s Green Funds
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Who, Really, Are the ‘Left Behinds’?
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Sonia Purnell’s Perspectives – ‘The Anti-Britain Propaganda is Clearly Working … Where is the Prime Minister’s Vision of this Green, Pleasant and Multicultural Land?’
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Clive Lewis MP: ‘I Never Thought I’d Hear Myself Say I Think My Party is Making this Country Weaker in Preparation for an Authoritarian-Right Government’
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‘Lawless Britain’ A Racist Myth that has Engulfed the Media and Political Right
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‘These People Can’t Stand What London Represents … It Makes a Mockery of their Entire Worldview
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Beyond Division ‘Multicultural Nationalism’ and the White Working-Class
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‘Campaigning for a Curriculum Rooted in Our Communities’
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Political Economy: ‘Some in Europe Are Starting to Fear the Continent Has Entered Its Own Century of Humiliation’
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European Ruling on Russian Interference Creates More Questions Than Answers
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‘A Mistake of Historic Proportions’ – But America’s Former Ambassador to Ukraine Believes It’s ‘Never Over’ When It Comes to the United States
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Russian ‘Tech Maidens’
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Hating the ‘Deep State’ More Than Loving Donald Trump: MAGA and the Epstein Affair
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The Next Wave: How Religious Extremism is Reclaiming Power
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The UK’s Complicity in Saudi Sportswashing
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Diaspora Dinners: Hot-Smoked Trout, Dill-Butter Potatoes and Quick-Pickle Cucumber
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The Film that Changed My Life: Clare Farrell on ‘My Dinner with Andre’
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Puzzle Solutions – Edition 77
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The Upside Down – Without the Beetles