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April 13, 2025 Vol 19

Category: commentisfree

Hard Times: Why Rachel Reeves and Ditch her Dickensian Rulebook have to be bold | Will hutton

THere are two inconveniences if the basic facts about Britain’s economic and budget. The first one: the relentless repeat of…

Pip cuts will ruin the lives of people with disabilities in humans. This is the tax moment in Labor Poll | Welfare

There is no doubt that the system of disability benefits is broken – but not in the ways the government…

What is the millions of tons of mud that are spraying on the UK field? The answer is that you will not be happy | George Monbiot

If humanity has an epitaph, it can read something like this: “knackered of things we missed.” It is true that…

Badenoch’s attack on net zero is ridiculous -laugh. But so are the Brexit claims of the right, and see where they left us | Zoe Williams

KEmi Badenoch’s speech in the climate this week is not interesting to himself: he said Net Zero could not achieve…

Cultural fighters do not see Britain’s disease, but a plague of ‘overdiagnosis’. How convenient | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

IS “Overdiagnosis” the new Buzzword culture-war culturally selected? I wondered for this for a while, and then Wes Streeting claimed…

Call it a defense or even a patriotic tax – but labor needs to raise taxes, fast | Gaby Hinsliff

FIve years ago this weekend, alive because we knew it was suspended overnight. Even with the availability it seemed to…

Long covid is the dark shadow of pandemya. Why no power in Britain wants to talk about it? | Frances Ryan

IMagine is a disease that can render the sufferers of its bedbound for years. The one who can take a…

It is a critical mission that organizing the contract between the people and the state | Andrew Rawnsley

LAvoiding the recent mourning of Sir Keir Starmer that the state of “Flabby” is not fulfilling Britain will experience Deja…

As Trump and Putin Menace Europe, I say this: Vive Le Churchillo-Gaullisme! | Timothy Garton Ash

SAre we all going to be GAullist now? In the language of the most important French European partner, the answer…

The global battle against the climate crisis requires China. I’m going to Beijing, and that’s what I’ll tell them | Ed Miliband

THis climate crisis is an existing threat to our way of life in Britain. The extreme weather is changing the…

Although Starmer’s project is fragile, he takes a giant jump: to re -configure British State | Martin Kettle

WHen Keir Starmer’s government finally arrived at the threshold of the next general election, because in 2028-29, Labor’s hope was…

Outside of Putin’s war and Trump’s betrayal, a new Europe was born | NATHALIE TOCCI

MThe immense mobilization of the Oscow military is clearly not aimed at Ukraine. Unless the Vladimir Putin receives a stopping…