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Why is everyone having weird dreams about Jeremy Corbyn?
People keep dreaming about Jeremy Corbyn. What is going on in the nation's unconscious? Everyone's voting for Jeremy Corbyn. And when they're not voting for him, they're dreaming about him. He is the...
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Northern Ireland’s First Minister steps aside, leaving Stormont a “zombie...
Instead of collapsing the devolved assembly as promised, the DUP are maiming it from within. Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson has stood down from Stormont, accelerating the...
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Morning Call: The best from Gibraltar
A selection of the best articles about politics, business and life on the Rock from the last seven days. First a sincere apology – the curse of the New Statesman (which, to be fair, we’ve only just...
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“If I have not this, I die”: why the UN’s gender equality goals matter
The UN’s targets on gender equality are not just a matter for “developing” countries. On the back wall of Committee Room 7 of the Houses of Parliament hangs a life-size portrait of a grey-haired man...
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Sadiq Khan wins Labour London mayoral nomination
The Tooting MP has triumphed against the bookmakers' favourite, Tessa Jowell, in the race. Sadiq Khan has won Labour's mayoral nomination, defeating Tessa Jowell, the bookmakers' favourite. He will...
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"We didn't realise they hated each other": David Cameron overheard mocking...
The Prime Minister has been caught on a live microphone making jibes about the people of Yorkshire. David Cameron was overheard on a live microphone making some disparaging comments about Yorkshire....
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Gender-neutral language is coming – here’s why it matters
Title yourself “Mx” on your gas bill, because small acts of linguistic rebellion can change the world. Language matters. It defines the limits of our imagination. You don’t have to be a gender...
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Debate: should MPs vote to permit assisted dying for the terminally ill?
The House of Commons is debating the Assisted Dying Bill, which, if passed, would allow doctors to prescribe a lethal drug dose to terminally ill patients who are deemed to have less than six months...
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How Sadiq Khan won the Labour London mayoral nomination
Tessa Jowell's left-leaning opponent rode the Corbyn wave. “We’re going to win it,” one of Sadiq Khan's closest aides told me on Wednesday. But others in Labour were sharply divided over who would...
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Can free museum entry survive the spending review?
One of Labour's greatest legacies is under threat, warns Chris Bryant. With everyone looking the other way this week, the government quietly slipped out the date when it will publish its three-year...
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It's not Jeremy Corbyn that's going to kill Labour
Labour is on the brink - but not for the reason you might expect. Sadiq Khan's landslide victory over Tessa Jowell masked a bigger, and more troubling, story for the Labour party. The rumours of...
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No, it won't help Sadiq Khan to have an old Etonian opponent
Excitement about Labour's new London mayoral candidate's background in comparison to that of Zac Goldsmith is futile. Sadiq Khan has been voted Labour’s candidate for the London mayoral election. It...
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How the festival of Holi has become a textbook case of cultural appropriation...
This weekend, revellers will pay £43 to throw coloured powder paint around, but with little understanding of Holi’s religious or social dimensions. Tomorrow’s "HOLI Festival of Colours" will see...
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Without a strategy, air strikes in Syria will just make things worse
Bomb first, plan later? Not good enough, says Kevan Jones MP. Following the Prime Minister’s announcement that two British citizens were recently killed by the RAF in Syria, many have raised...
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Like so many millions of people in this country I was horrified by that picture of a little Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach last week. And since then I’ve been very moved by the public’s...
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"I hated myself": David Hare's self-flagellating memoir
The director comes across as both hypersensitive and unnervingly frank in The Blue Touch Paper. The director Richard Eyre once told me that, during his long working relationship with David Hare, he...
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Tom Watson elected as Labour's deputy leader
The West Bromwich East MP has triumphed in the deputy leadership race. Tom Watson has been crowned as deputy leader of the Labour party. Watson, who prior to being elected as MP for West Bromwich East...
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Jeremy Corbyn elected Labour leader
The veteran leftwinger - who started the race as a 100/1 outsider - has triumphed in the race to replace Ed Miliband. Jeremy Corbyn has triumphed in the Labour leadership race, defeating Andy...
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Labour chooses white man as leader
In pictures: Labour's diverse history. The Labour party has chosen Jeremy Corbyn, the MP for Islington North as its new leader. The news marks the latest installment in the proud history of Britain's...
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The epic challenges facing Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader
No leader has ever won office with a larger mandate, nor with so little support from their MPs. Jeremy Corbyn's landslide victory - the largest mandate ever won by a party leader - will at least come...
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