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- Edition 86 – June 2026 – Cover + Contents
- Letters – June 2026
- Editorial – Eventful Times
- Peter Oborne's Diary – Labour Lessons
- On the Ground – (Farage-Free) Reform
- Bad Press Awards – The Lead-Plated Lint Ball for Ludicrous Arguments
- That's True Too – Natural Learning
- Reform UK Repeatedly Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church
- ‘Labour’s Future Rests on Building a Country with Real National Resilience’
- Blue Labour Crashes Into a Green Wall
- ‘AMERICA Had Eight Years from the Tea Party to Trump. Britain Is Already Further Along the Curve than We Were in 2014’
- The Death of Empire
- ‘I Hadn’t Anticipated Developing Empathy for Them, But You Can See How the Conspirituality Belief System Also Serves as a Set of Coping Mechanisms’
- Notes on Now – Sucked Into Parochialism
- Can Hungary’s Democracy Recover from its Systematic Dismantling by Viktor Orbán?
- Hedge Funds and Tech Bros: Reform UK James Orr’s Road to Damascus
- 'If anyone can become an Englishman, what is an Englishman?'
- Sadiq Khan: ‘I recognise I’m clickbait being monetised in this outrage economy’
- Destiny And the Rise of the Far-Right: 50 Years On
- Achilles and Trump’s ‘Forever Wars’
- 'Ffair Cymru': Conversations Across Contradictions in Swansea
- On the Record – The Foreigner Who Set You Free
- Mandrake – Tail Wags the Dog
- Zeitgeisters – Martin Shaw
- Puzzle Solutions – Edition 86
- The Upside Down – Duende
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Edition 86 – June 2026
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Can Hungary’s Democracy Recover from its Systematic Dismantling by Viktor Orbán?
The former Prime Minister did not destroy democracy outright – he re-engineered it into a system in which elections continue but meaningful political competition does not. His successor faces a complex dilemma of how to reform such a regime, writes James Bloodworth
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Sadiq Khan: ‘I recognise I’m clickbait being monetised in this outrage economy’
The Labour Mayor of London spoke to Adam Bienkov about how 10 years of rising algorithmic online hate has put his own safety at risk and ‘put a target’ on the capital’s back
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Achilles and Trump’s ‘Forever Wars’
Instead of threatening Iran with a return to the Stone Age, the United States could look to ancient stories of imperial folly to learn a thing or two, writes Jake Arnott
Investigations, Analysis, Reports and Columns
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Letters – June 2026
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Editorial – Eventful Times
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – Labour Lessons
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On the Ground – (Farage-Free) Reform
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Bad Press Awards – The Lead-Plated Lint Ball for Ludicrous Arguments
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That’s True Too – Natural Learning
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Reform UK Repeatedly Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church
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‘Labour’s Future Rests on Building a Country with Real National Resilience’
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Blue Labour Crashes Into a Green Wall
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‘AMERICA Had Eight Years from the Tea Party to Trump. Britain Is Already Further Along the Curve than We Were in 2014’
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The Death of Empire
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‘I Hadn’t Anticipated Developing Empathy for Them, But You Can See How the Conspirituality Belief System Also Serves as a Set of Coping Mechanisms’
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Notes on Now – Sucked Into Parochialism
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Hedge Funds and Tech Bros: Reform UK James Orr’s Road to Damascus
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‘If anyone can become an Englishman, what is an Englishman?’
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Destiny And the Rise of the Far-Right: 50 Years On
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‘Ffair Cymru’: Conversations Across Contradictions in Swansea
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On the Record – The Foreigner Who Set You Free
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Mandrake – Tail Wags the Dog
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Zeitgeisters – Martin Shaw
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Puzzle Solutions – Edition 86
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The Upside Down – Duende