
The public doesn’t like Brexit. Has anyone told the media?
From the broadsheets to the tabloids, journalism is increasingly out of touch with public opinion.
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From the broadsheets to the tabloids, journalism is increasingly out of touch with public opinion.
ByThe EU can’t save us from high energy costs.
ByWith his talk of “ruthless pragmatism”, is Nick Thomas-Symonds the heir to Harold Wilson?
ByThe Conservatives are still haunted by their past failures on Europe.
ByTrump and Putin have handed Britain the chance for a fresh start with Europe.
ByRemainer fantasies still have too much sway over the Labour Party.
ByAlso this week: Trump’s Pentagon press purge and a new mission for Toby Jones.
ByKeir Starmer is right to pursue a “reset” with the EU. But he risks pleasing no one.
ByKemi Badenoch’s strategy of agreeing with Reform risks backfiring.
ByWas it ever possible for the promised results to be delivered?
ByDuring its membership, the UK exerted a disproportionately strong influence on EU legislation, often in subtle ways.
ByAlso this week: meditations on love and loss, and the bliss of the Berlin Philarmonic.
ByNigel Farage calls himself the “Billy Graham” of politics and believes his right English populism can destroy the Conservatives.
ByWe should engage with the Global South and ease migration restrictions from Commonwealth countries.
ByWith Brexit, the UK reclaimed a considerable measure of formal sovereignty – but not its democracy.
ByTim Shipman shows how May’s charisma-free caution over Brexit made the rise of Boris Johnson inevitable.
ByExperts are back, and we need to listen to them.
ByA patriotic and outward-looking Starmer government could rebuild Britain’s alliances and international standing.
ByLabour’s former prime minister on the AI revolution, the curse of Brexit and what Keir Starmer must do to win.
ByThe implication of Labour’s focus on “resilience” is that modern subjects are weak, inflexible and unable to cope.
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