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- Edition 79 – November 2025 – Cover + Contents
- Editorial – Signs of the Time
- Letters – November 2025
- News In Brief – A COSTLY BAN
- Peter Oborne's Diary – The Leper in the Commons
- Bad Press Awards – The Inflatable Boxing Glove for Performative Anger
- On the Ground – Switched Offcom
- ‘The Integrity Gap: Starmer’s Government Risks Building the Authoritarian Future We Fear’
- Free Speech and the Opportunistic Deceit of the Right
- ‘The Conservative Plan to Leave the ECHR Marks the Crossing of a Rubicon’
- Political Economy: ‘The UK’s Political Class Has No Plausible Alternative to the Old Thatcherite Economic Model’
- Mandrake – Liberal Candidates
- In Absurdia – A Lord’s Purpose
- Sonia Purnell's Perspectives – Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage
- ‘Thick as Thieves’ Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
- Britain’s Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism. Why?
- ‘Blue Labour’ & the Thiel Effect
- How the Alt-Right Gets In
- ‘America Must Save Britain’
- Shami Chakrabarti:‘We Need a Popular Front Broad Enough to Go From the Left of the Left to Liberal Conservatives’
- ‘The Most Extreme Policies We’ve Had from Any Political Party’
- ‘Calling Reform Racist Doesn’t Work’, Say Unions as Workers Indicate Support for Nigel Farage’s Party
- We Are Utterly Reliant on Immigrant Workers – But Who Cares About Reality?
- Pilgrimage to Detention: 24 Hours in Israeli Immigration Custody
- Notes on Now – Cruelty
- Tony Harrison Remembered
- Oedipus and the ‘Other’ Within Us All
- Zeitgeisters – Lamorna Ash
- Humanism: The Inhumane Alternative
- Diaspora Dinners: Sago Gula Melaka
- The Upside Down – Fading Fast
- Puzzle Solutions – Edition 79
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EDITION 79 – NOVEMBER 2025
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How the Alt-Right Gets In
Following Curtis Yarvin’s appearance at a London festival with Alastair Campbell, Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes examine his writings, which are reportedly inspiring Silicon Valley Tech Bros and the US Vice President
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‘America Must Save Britain’
GB News’ new programme broadcast live from Washington DC features climate denial, vaccine misinformation, and non-stop praise for Donald Trump – with the channel’s co-owner telling ‘MAGA’ politicians that the UK needs rescuing. Josiah Mortimer reports
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‘The Most Extreme Policies We’ve Had from Any Political Party’
Hope not Hate’s CEO Nick Lowles tells Adam Bienkov that Reform UK’s rise is mainstreaming ideas that were previously taboo even among sections of the far-right
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Oedipus and the ‘Other’ Within Us All
In our theatre of social media, the modern chorus has become a cacophony of competing rights and opposing certainties where the contemporary curse is that of othering, writes Jake Arnott
Martin Rowson’s cartoon
Investigations, Analysis, Reports and Columns
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Editorial – Signs of the Time
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Letters – November 2025
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News In Brief – A COSTLY BAN
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – The Leper in the Commons
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Bad Press Awards – The Inflatable Boxing Glove for Performative Anger
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On the Ground – Switched Offcom
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‘The Integrity Gap: Starmer’s Government Risks Building the Authoritarian Future We Fear’
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Free Speech and the Opportunistic Deceit of the Right
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‘The Conservative Plan to Leave the ECHR Marks the Crossing of a Rubicon’
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Political Economy: ‘The UK’s Political Class Has No Plausible Alternative to the Old Thatcherite Economic Model’
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Mandrake – Liberal Candidates
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In Absurdia – A Lord’s Purpose
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Sonia Purnell’s Perspectives – Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage
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‘Thick as Thieves’ Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
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Britain’s Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism. Why?
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‘Blue Labour’ & the Thiel Effect
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Shami Chakrabarti:‘We Need a Popular Front Broad Enough to Go From the Left of the Left to Liberal Conservatives’
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‘Calling Reform Racist Doesn’t Work’, Say Unions as Workers Indicate Support for Nigel Farage’s Party
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We Are Utterly Reliant on Immigrant Workers – But Who Cares About Reality?
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Pilgrimage to Detention: 24 Hours in Israeli Immigration Custody
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Notes on Now – Cruelty
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Tony Harrison Remembered
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Zeitgeisters – Lamorna Ash
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Humanism: The Inhumane Alternative
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Diaspora Dinners: Sago Gula Melaka
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The Upside Down – Fading Fast
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Puzzle Solutions – Edition 79