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What they don’t tell you about Muslims in Britain
Sarfraz Manzoor on why he’s increasingly optimistic about the future of relations between Britain’s Muslims and non-Muslims.
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Letters to the Editor: Nick Clegg has chance to save face by saving Facebook
What was Nick Clegg expected to do after losing his seat in politics? One reader believes the former Lib Dem leader could achieve some good at Facebook.
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HS2: Why can’t Britain ever get the big things right?
As HS2 shows, there is a problem with the UK that means the country cannot deliver the major projects needed to prepare us for the future.
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Mandrake: Trouble in store for Sainsbury’s over the B-word
Not everyone's willing to accept that Brexit has played a part in the shortage of food on supermarkets. TIM WALKER explains more.
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Reasons to be cheerful when the news is bad
During one of the most miserable weeks to be a satirist MITCH BENN tries to find some positives to write about.
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Tim Bradford’s What’s Going On? How is HS2 going?
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Yes, Brexit really IS a big driver of our lorry crisis
The UK’s supply chains face more problems every day. So why the denial over what helped cause this, and where is the strategy that will resolve it?
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British farmers feeling sheepish over Brexit-inspired New Zealand lamb deal
It has been a gloomy week on the sunlit uplands of sovereign Britain as the supply line crisis continues to threaten our traditional way of life...
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Mandrake: Old Etonian set to oversee the allocation of senior government jobs
William Shawcross claimed that Boris Johnson's 'finest hour' will be if he 'saved' the nation from the EU.
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The apprentice scheme that has failed to prepare Brexit Britain
Brexit, like Covid, has undoubtedly contributed to a jobs crisis. But another major problem has been the government's failure to create a properly functioning apprenticeship system.
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How Nick Clegg became a pariah for the Lib Dems
TIM WALKER, a one-time parliamentary candidate for the centre party, on how members feel about its former leader, now one of the social network’s senior figures
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‘Just relax and forget about it’ – The book Dominic Raab could yet write
MITCH BENN imagines the books right-wing figureheads would release if only they had a few more holidays...
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Paul Mason: Fascism in Europe is on the rise… here’s how to fight it
The threat from 21st century fascism is not of a modern day March on Rome or a beerhall putsch. It's far more insidious. By PAUL MASON, the broadcaster and author of a new book on the subject
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Brexit beer and lorry shortages are enough to drive you to drink
Pubs could run out of beer over the bank holiday weekend days after Nando's were forced to close due to a lack of chicken.
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Letters to the editor: Blame for social problems cannot be pinned on Europe
Readers respond to a letter from a voter in Sheffield who now backs Brexit.
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Mandrake: Has Sarah Vine’s massive Mail salary finally been revealed?
Tim Walker explains why Michael Gove's estranged wife is unlikely to be going anywhere at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Bruised British business is yet to pass the Brexit stress test
Eight months after the end of the transition period, how are UK companies faring outside the EU? MARK MARDELL investigates
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The conspiracy theorist’s guide to UK holidays
The comedian and broadcaster is back with a conspiracy theorist's guide to the great British holiday
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Tom Tugendhat: “The price of inaction can be more than action”
The Conservative MP and former soldier, whose moving speech on the tragedy in Afghanistan brought applause from the Commons, writes for The New European, and warns of an impending human calamity .. and China's role in a new global attitude to intervention.
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Get your ticket for Mitch Benn’s political Edinburgh Festival!
Are you going to the Edinburgh Festival fringe this year? Neither is Mitch Benn! So he's putting on a show right here...
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Why October 1 is likely to bring more Brexit pain and shortages
More food shortages and higher prices are likely to be the result of new Brexit checks that come into effect from October 1
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Mandrake: Carrie Johnson’s elephants in the room
Carrie Johnson has her work cut out as part of an ambitious project to 'rewild' 13 African elephants
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Innumerate Britain: Our inability to understand big numbers is a national disaster
Did the Brexit vote swing on a basic misunderstanding of public finances? Did people die of Covid because our politicians are innumerate? LIZ GERARD explores Britain’s hopelessness in the face of big numbers
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Party politics will not save us from the Tories – we need drastic action
One party on its own can't save us from the Tories - it's time for a progressive alternative.
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Would Sajid Javid have renamed ICU wards ‘Drama Queen Zones’?
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My favourite new Freedom is avoiding selfish anti-maskers
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Mitch Benn looks at anti-maskers, the Boris Johnson U-turn on isolating and more in his review of the week in politics Hello, and let me wish you all a belated Happy Freedom Day! Yes, the day after which we are all now free to take one look at all our fellow citizens and decide immediately […]
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The Tories have already lost the culture wars
The fight against ‘woke’ carries with it echoes of their doomed battle to hold back gay rights.
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Boris Johnson enjoys splendid isolation
Tim Walker reports on the latest revamp at Chequers