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Starmer still lacks a true mission

The Prime Minister’s ever-shifting priorities leave all sides disappointed

📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Starmer still lacks a true mission
The Prime Minister’s ever-shifting priorities leave all sides disappointed
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December 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
What Gillian Rose saw in Auschwitz

Thirty years after her death, Rose’s command to look for fascism inside our selves is more powerful than ever. By Robert Lucas Scott
What Gillian Rose saw in Auschwitz
Thirty years after her death, Rose's command to look for fascism inside our selves is more powerful than ever
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December 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The day the establishment died, by Andy Twelves. The student fee protest overthrew an entire political reality.
The day the establishment died
The student fee protest overthrew an entire political reality
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December 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Goodbye Martin Parr

Serious photographs, disguised as entertainment

🖼️ Michael Prodger
Goodbye Martin Parr
Serious photographs, disguised as entertainment
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December 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Your Party's grassroots are losing patience.

Youth groups and local branches are coming to the same conclusion: there is no point affiliating with a party that cannot even define itself.

🖊️ Hattie Simpson
Your Party's grassroots are losing patience
There is no point affiliating with a party that cannot even define itself
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December 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Baroness Amos, the Government’s maternity reviewer, has delivered her first reflections:

“Unacceptable care” for women and babies “much worse” than anticipated

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“Unacceptable care” for women and babies “much worse” than anticipated
Baroness Amos, the Government's maternity reviewer, has delivered her first reflections
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December 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The story of John Lennon's bloodied glasses, 45 years after his death

🎸 Kate Mossman
The story of John Lennon's bloodied glasses
The "very very mild" album cover that shocked the world
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December 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Labour’s Green attacks are misfiring

Keir Starmer’s dismissal of the insurgent party as “nuts” won’t work

📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Labour’s Green attacks are misfiring
Keir Starmer’s dismissal of the insurgent party as “nuts” won’t work
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December 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
What baby books taught me about the British state

The Bookstart scheme, which gives books to newborns, is a remnant from a more beneficent political era

By @anooshc.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politi...
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Fifteen years ago, Britain’s streets were the scene of a mass youth revolt.

Michael Chessum and Simon Hannah: Bring back the spirit of the 2010 student fees protests
Bring back the spirit of the 2010 student fees protests
Fifteen years after the tuition fee protests, we need their rampant disdain for the Establishment more than ever
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December 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
How Labour lost its staffers, by @sajeraj.bsky.social
Pity the Labour staffers
Morale has been hit by the direction and effectiveness of the government and the party
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December 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Syria’s fragile future. A year after the fall of Assad, the country is grappling with sectarian tensions and flashes of violence. By Cian Ward
Syria's fragile future
A year after the fall of Assad, the country is grappling with sectarian tensions and flashes of violence
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December 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Online activists are all right-wing now. The Greta Thunbergs have been replaced by the Young Bobs. By Ella Dorn
Online activists are all right-wing now
The Greta Thunbergs have been replaced by the Young Bobs
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December 8, 2025 at 7:43 AM
How blue hair stopped being cool
How blue hair stopped being cool
It used to suggest playful rebellion. Now it suggests woke scold
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December 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Assisted dying’s disgraceful delay

While peers obstruct the bill, many like my brother Nicholas are condemned to suffer

By Jonathan Dimbleby
Assisted dying’s disgraceful delay
While peers obstruct the bill, many like my brother Nicholas are condemned to suffer
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December 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"Having been called homophobic slurs many times in real life before the age of 18, I do wonder if I could have handled encountering those words in a short story."

The Online Safety Act came for my short story, by Ben Sims.
The Online Safety Act came for my short story
My fiction was too much for the Starmer government
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December 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The case for Zack Polanski’s economic plan

The Green Party leader’s recent arguments sound a lot like Modern Monetary Theory
The case for Zack Polanski's economic plan
The Green Party leader's recent arguments sound a lot like Modern Monetary Theory
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December 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
OK Boomer, buy me a drink

Gen Z aren’t boring, we’re poor. Don’t pass off poverty as puritanism

Aoife Wall's weekend report
OK Boomer, buy me a drink
Gen Z aren't boring, we're poor. Don't pass off poverty as puritanism
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December 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
How not to talk about capitalism

The more it penetrates our daily lives, the less we seem to understand the “system that runs the world”

By Dominik Leusder
How not to talk about capitalism
The more it penetrates our daily lives, the less we seem to understand the “system that runs the world”
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December 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Russia has made Britain its number one enemy

Ex-Nato official John Lough on how the UK is being “singled out” for Russian aggression

By @RMCunliffe.bsky.social
Russia has made Britain its number one enemy
Ex-Nato official John Lough on how the UK is being “singled out” for Russian aggression
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December 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Will the new puberty blocker trial put children at risk?

It’s unclear whether the trial will be able to answer the many urgent questions surrounding gender care

By @hannahsbee.bsky.social
Will the new puberty blocker trial put children at risk?
It's unclear whether the trial will be able to answer the many urgent questions surrounding gender care
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December 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Let's hear it for The Rest is History

Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland are defining our national story

By Robert Colls www.newstatesman.com/cultur...
December 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Bridget Phillipson’s child poverty victory

The abolition of the two-child benefit cap is the end of a long fight by the Education Secretary

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Bridget Phillipson’s child poverty victory
The abolition of the two-child benefit cap is the end of a long fight by the Education Secretary
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December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Why does Tucker Carlson hate Britain?

His garish fantasies about our country are starting to infect our own conservative movement

By @JonnElledge.bsky.social
Why does Tucker Carlson hate Britain?
His garish fantasies about our country are starting to infect our own conservative movement
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December 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
We can break the cycle of poverty, by Gordon Brown. Britain now has the first comprehensive plan for supporting children.
We can break the cycle of poverty
The Child Poverty Review represents a bold attempt to reduce the number of children growing up in hardship
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December 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM