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- Edition 90 – October 2026 – Cover + Contents
- Puzzle Solutions – Edition 90
- Dark Forces Erupting Into View
- Letters
- Peter Oborne ‘It Is Unforgivable That the Wretched Starmer Allowed British Democracy to Be Debauched in This Way’
- Reform U-Turns on Reform
- ‘Weren’t Those Black-Clad Lads on That Dover Train So Terribly Polite?’
- Otto English as Katharine Birbalsingh
- ‘For Once, the Record Shows the Real Farage’
- ‘A Problem With Liberal Democracy Is That, Though It Prides Itself on Tolerance and Honesty, It Colludes With Intolerance and Lies’
- Money Talks
- Beyond Spectators: Following the American Money that Funded the Hate Against Jason Arday
- Nathan Cofnas and America’s Protection for Anti-Black Racism
- The Two Professors and a ‘War on Ideas’
- Jason Arday and the Story Behind the Story of the Times’ ‘Impossible Data’
- ‘You Want to Love His Music. Without Thinking That This Guy Raped Kids Year After Year’
- Who Owns Our Beautiful Game?
- Directed by History
- The Digital Domain Is the Most Mortal of All
- Finding the Right Energy to Tackle Our Existential Climate Dread
- Upside Down
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Edition 90 – October 2026
Inside
Highlights
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Money Talks
Adam Bienkov explores what the downfall of Reform senior advisor James Orr means for the future viability of the Nigel Farage project
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The Two Professors and a ‘War on Ideas’
The different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces at work around hierarchies and structural power. Hardeep Matharu reports
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‘You Want to Love His Music. Without Thinking That This Guy Raped Kids Year After Year’
After the phenomenal success of the Michael Jackson biopic this year, Hardeep Matharu sat down with Dan Reed, the director of ‘Leaving Neverland’ – which documented sexual abuse allegations against the late singer – to explore how he feels seeing the icon’s continued success, the cult of the ‘cultural god’, and telling complicated truths
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The Digital Domain Is the Most Mortal of All
Social media and digital storage are radically changing our concept of time and consciousness of death, writes Peter Jukes
Investigations, Analysis, Reports and Columns
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Puzzle Solutions – Edition 90
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Dark Forces Erupting Into View
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Letters
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Peter Oborne ‘It Is Unforgivable That the Wretched Starmer Allowed British Democracy to Be Debauched in This Way’
-
Reform U-Turns on Reform
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‘Weren’t Those Black-Clad Lads on That Dover Train So Terribly Polite?’
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Otto English as Katharine Birbalsingh
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‘For Once, the Record Shows the Real Farage’
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‘A Problem With Liberal Democracy Is That, Though It Prides Itself on Tolerance and Honesty, It Colludes With Intolerance and Lies’
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Beyond Spectators: Following the American Money that Funded the Hate Against Jason Arday
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Nathan Cofnas and America’s Protection for Anti-Black Racism
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Jason Arday and the Story Behind the Story of the Times’ ‘Impossible Data’
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Who Owns Our Beautiful Game?
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Directed by History
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Finding the Right Energy to Tackle Our Existential Climate Dread
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Upside Down