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The story of John Lennon's bloodied glasses, 45 years after his death
🎸 Kate Mossman
🎸 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
The story of John Lennon's bloodied glasses, 45 years after his death
🎸 Kate Mossman
🎸 Kate Mossman
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
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
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
Keir Starmer’s dismissal of the insurgent party as “nuts” won’t work
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
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...
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
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...
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...
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
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
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
Michael Chessum and Simon Hannah: Bring back the spirit of the 2010 student fees protests
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
How Labour lost its staffers, by @sajeraj.bsky.social
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
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
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
Online activists are all right-wing now. The Greta Thunbergs have been replaced by the Young Bobs. By Ella Dorn
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
How blue hair stopped being cool
Assisted dying’s disgraceful delay
While peers obstruct the bill, many like my brother Nicholas are condemned to suffer
By Jonathan Dimbleby
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
Assisted dying’s disgraceful delay
While peers obstruct the bill, many like my brother Nicholas are condemned to suffer
By Jonathan Dimbleby
While peers obstruct the bill, many like my brother Nicholas are condemned to suffer
By Jonathan Dimbleby
"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, 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
"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, by Ben Sims.
The case for Zack Polanski’s economic plan
The Green Party leader’s recent arguments sound a lot like Modern Monetary Theory
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
The case for Zack Polanski’s economic plan
The Green Party leader’s recent arguments sound a lot like Modern Monetary Theory
The Green Party leader’s recent arguments sound a lot like Modern Monetary Theory
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
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
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
Gen Z aren’t boring, we’re poor. Don’t pass off poverty as puritanism
Aoife Wall's weekend report
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
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
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
The more it penetrates our daily lives, the less we seem to understand the “system that runs the world”
By Dominik Leusder
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
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
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
Ex-Nato official John Lough on how the UK is being “singled out” for Russian aggression
By @RMCunliffe.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
By @hannahsbee.bsky.social
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
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
It’s unclear whether the trial will be able to answer the many urgent questions surrounding gender care
By @hannahsbee.bsky.social
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...
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland are defining our national story
By Robert Colls www.newstatesman.com/cultur...
December 5, 2025 at 5:52 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...
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland are defining our national story
By Robert Colls www.newstatesman.com/cultur...
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
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
The abolition of the two-child benefit cap is the end of a long fight by the Education Secretary
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
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
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
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
The abolition of the two-child benefit cap is the end of a long fight by the Education Secretary
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Why does Tucker Carlson hate Britain?
His garish fantasies about our country are starting to infect our own conservative movement
By @JonnElledge.bsky.social
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
Why does Tucker Carlson hate Britain?
His garish fantasies about our country are starting to infect our own conservative movement
By @JonnElledge.bsky.social
His garish fantasies about our country are starting to infect our own conservative movement
By @JonnElledge.bsky.social
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
We can break the cycle of poverty, by Gordon Brown. Britain now has the first comprehensive plan for supporting children.
The Budget has given Kemi Badenoch a chance
Why the Tories are benefiting from a traditional left-right divide on the economy
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Why the Tories are benefiting from a traditional left-right divide on the economy
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
The Budget has given Kemi Badenoch a chance
Why the Tories are benefiting from a traditional left-right divide on the economy
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December 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The Budget has given Kemi Badenoch a chance
Why the Tories are benefiting from a traditional left-right divide on the economy
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Why the Tories are benefiting from a traditional left-right divide on the economy
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
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December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Leah Williamson: “We haven’t been brought up like boys in the Arsenal academy”
The England captain on the rapid changes of women’s football
⚽ Zoë Huxford
The England captain on the rapid changes of women’s football
⚽ Zoë Huxford
Leah Williamson: “We haven’t been brought up like boys in the Arsenal academy”
The England captain on the rapid changes of women’s football
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December 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Leah Williamson: “We haven’t been brought up like boys in the Arsenal academy”
The England captain on the rapid changes of women’s football
⚽ Zoë Huxford
The England captain on the rapid changes of women’s football
⚽ Zoë Huxford
Angela Rayner is Wes Streeting’s biggest obstacle to PM
🖊️ Ailbhe Rea
🖊️ Ailbhe Rea
Angela Rayner is Wes Streeting’s biggest obstacle to PM
But would she even want to be leader?
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December 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Angela Rayner is Wes Streeting’s biggest obstacle to PM
🖊️ Ailbhe Rea
🖊️ Ailbhe Rea
Europe is losing Ukraine
As Donald Trump attempts to negotiate a peace deal, Kyiv is increasingly rejecting the EU position
🖊️ Hans Kundnani
As Donald Trump attempts to negotiate a peace deal, Kyiv is increasingly rejecting the EU position
🖊️ Hans Kundnani
Europe is losing Ukraine
As Donald Trump attempts to negotiate a peace deal, Kyiv is increasingly rejecting the EU position
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December 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Europe is losing Ukraine
As Donald Trump attempts to negotiate a peace deal, Kyiv is increasingly rejecting the EU position
🖊️ Hans Kundnani
As Donald Trump attempts to negotiate a peace deal, Kyiv is increasingly rejecting the EU position
🖊️ Hans Kundnani
Rachel Reeves' rage bait Budget
The Chancellor’s set piece was a masterclass in political humiliation
🖼️ Will Dunn's sketch
The Chancellor’s set piece was a masterclass in political humiliation
🖼️ Will Dunn's sketch
Rachel Reeves' rage bait Budget
The Chancellor’s set piece was a masterclass in political humiliation
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December 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Rachel Reeves' rage bait Budget
The Chancellor’s set piece was a masterclass in political humiliation
🖼️ Will Dunn's sketch
The Chancellor’s set piece was a masterclass in political humiliation
🖼️ Will Dunn's sketch