Transcript: Interview with Will Straw
MY COLUMN this week looks at the Remain campaign in Britain's EU referendum. The main organisation in it is Britain...
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The telling sincerity of Jeremy Corbyn’s EU conversion
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Britain could lead Europe if it wanted to
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By tolerating Jeremy Corbyn, Labour’s moderates are complicit in their party’s shame
ANOTHER day, another figure in the Labour Party facing allegations of anti-Semitism. Today it is Ken Livingstone, who went on...
Why comparing Israel to the Nazis is always anti-Semitic
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Leicester City’s success suggests globalisation is strengthening, not killing, English football
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Low expectations cloud Labour’s abysmal local-elections performance
YESTERDAY Theo Bertram, an adviser in Downing Street under New Labour, blogged on the art of spinning local-election results. He...
Sadiq Khan will be London’s new mayor
THE official declaration has not yet taken place, but already it is arithmetically certain that Sadiq Khan has won London’s...
Why Zac Goldsmith’s “extremism” attacks on Sadiq Khan were wrong
AS THE dust settles on Sadiq Khan’s victory in London’s mayoral election, attentions are turning to Zac Goldsmith’s campaign and...