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Rishi Sunak and his environmental straw men

This Wednesday Rishi Sunak gave a speech rolling back on the government’s Net Zero pledges,...

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Trussonomics isn't dead

Liz Truss thought she had two years to save the economy, but her mini-budget caused it all to...

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How Chile (almost) democratised Big Tech | Audio Long Read

Fifty years after Salvador Allende was ousted, might his greatest legacy be his battle with the...

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You Ask Us: Why are so many councils going bust?

Since being recently surpassed by India, Britain has the world's sixth largest economy. But, one...

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Angela Rayner can’t let the unions down now

The deputy labour leader and “trade union favourite” delivered a speech full of promises at the...

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Britain's great tax delusion

Rishi Sunak earned almost £5m in the past three years, yet this was only taxed at a rate of 22%....

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The prime minister and the AI that solved the climate crisis

After the extreme heat of summer 2024, which saw children stretchered out of their exams,...

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Crumbling Britain, with Andrew Marr

We inhabit an economy too small to deliver the social goods British people expect, and now...

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You Ask Us: The big Labour reshuffle, promotions and demotions

Angela Rayner up, Lisa Nandy down - what’s motivated the moves in Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet...

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The trappings of Western hyper-liberalism | Conversation

Can liberalism survive the horrors of our modern world? Will Lloyd is joined by John Gray...

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Summer of Light: a new short story by Jonathan Coe | Audio Long Read

In the summer of 1924, a highly regarded painter falls – or is he pushed? – into the canal while...

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You Ask Us: if you're a centrist politician, how do you choose one party over another?

Rory Stewart, Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell: a listener writes in to ask why centrist politicians...

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Ben Wallace and Nadine Dorries, the long goodbye

“History will not remember you kindly” Nadine Dorries’ wrote this weekend in her resignation...

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Escaping Eden: life after the Plymouth Brethren | Audio Long Reads

For those who leave the ultra-conservative Christian sect, separation comes at great personal...

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Have Conservatives forgotten education?

GCSE and A Level results are out, and the proportion of top grades have dipped since the pandemic...

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Russia’s war on the future | Conversation

After spending several days reporting in Pokrovsk, a small city in eastern Ukraine and the recent...

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In defence of counterfactual history

What if the rush to war in 1914 had been averted? What if the Berlin Crisis of 1961 had led to...

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You Ask Us: Should it be easier to recall MPs, and how do Rishi Sunak and John Major compare?

Various MPs, including Nadine Dorries, have been accused of not doing their jobs. Should there be...

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