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- Edition 89 – September 2026 – Cover + Contents
- On the Record – L’Infantino Way
- Letters – September 2026
- Peter Oborne's Diary – Taking a Gamble
- On the Ground – A Lot of Staplers
- Bad Press Awards – The Silver Salver for Total Lack of Self-Awareness
- There Will Be Another Jason Arday
- The Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
- ‘A Polar Bear on an Iceberg? Here’s This Picture of Catastrophe and You’ve Totally Depoliticised It’
- That's True Too – In Pursuit of Pluralism – Seeking Attention
- Playing With Fire
- Countering Doom and Despair
- ‘It Never Comes Up on the Doorstep’
- What Burnham’s Got Wrong About Thatcherism
- ‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity
- A Letter from America – Watch the Complacency
- A ‘Politics of Nostalgism’ Stops Us Facing Up to the Future
- Care: The Cost of Petty Politics
- ‘No Man is an Island’ When it Comes to Care
- The Hollow Redemption of the Odyssey
- Flukes, Strays, Shadows
- Mandrake – Out in the Cold
- Notes on Now – The AI Reveals Itself
- Puzzle Solutions – Edition 89
- The Upside Down – Silver Darlings
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Edition 89 – September 2026
In This Edition
In This EditionHighlights
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‘A Polar Bear on an Iceberg? Here’s This Picture of Catastrophe and You’ve Totally Depoliticised It’
The climate crisis can’t be solved without a commitment to fighting injustice at the same time – Asad Rehman, chief executive of Friends of the Earth, sat down with Hardeep Matharu to explain why
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‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity
As scrutiny continues of Nigel Farage’s finances, Nafeez Ahmed investigates an assumed identity used by his right-hand-man George Cottrell – and how the convicted aristocrat’s former boss in the City became the treasurer vetting Reform UK’s donations
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Care: The Cost of Petty Politics
How has the most humane work in our society been devalued and allowed to deteriorate for so long?
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The Hollow Redemption of the Odyssey
Christoper Nolan’s acclaimed retelling of the epic Greek poem provides too satisfying an ending in a world of brutality, writes Kamin Mohammadi
Investigations, Analysis, Reports and Columns
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On the Record – L’Infantino Way
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Letters – September 2026
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – Taking a Gamble
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On the Ground – A Lot of Staplers
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Bad Press Awards – The Silver Salver for Total Lack of Self-Awareness
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There Will Be Another Jason Arday
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The Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
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That’s True Too – In Pursuit of Pluralism – Seeking Attention
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Playing With Fire
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Countering Doom and Despair
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‘It Never Comes Up on the Doorstep’
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What Burnham’s Got Wrong About Thatcherism
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A Letter from America – Watch the Complacency
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A ‘Politics of Nostalgism’ Stops Us Facing Up to the Future
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‘No Man is an Island’ When it Comes to Care
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Flukes, Strays, Shadows
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Mandrake – Out in the Cold
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Notes on Now – The AI Reveals Itself
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Puzzle Solutions – Edition 89
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The Upside Down – Silver Darlings