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Braverman’s brutal Britain

— It’s not May, Johnson, Truss, or Sunak that is the problem, it’s the entire detestable lot of them.

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Britain and Belgium: Asylum crises as Albania slams the UK ‘madhouse’

— Most people who cross the English Channel leave their homes in search of a better life, freedom, respect, or a decent, assured income. But countries comply differently with their international obligations towards refugees.

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MPs call for investigation into misuse of funds by a 55 Tufton Street charity

— Lawyers have uncovered conduct by a 55 Tufton Street charity which appears to breach charity law. A cross-party group of MPs has written to ask the Charity Commission why it is allowing Tufton Street dark money to pretend to be for the public good – and claim top ups from the public purse.

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Liz Truss’s government spewed hate about everyone, including tofu-eating people like me

— Spewing hate about everyone, including tofu-eaters like me, is neither a strategy nor a solution to climate action activists’ disruptive tactics, Rashmee Roshan Lall writes.

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Is Liz Truss really a symbol of Western democratic resilience as China crowns Xi Jinping?

— No matter whether a system is democratic or undemocratic, a bad leader’s period in office could leave millions of broken lives in its wake.

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Liz Truss and the best of British robotic libertarianism

— Say the name “Liz Truss” now and the two words convey a world of meaning. Misgovernance, missteps, miserliness towards the poorest and most vulnerable. But most importantly, one woman’s name has come to signify the best of British robotic libertarianism.

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This could open the door to fracking

— We will continue to stand side-by-side with the local people of Dunsfold in their campaign to protect the environment from a drilling project that could open the door to future projects that will add to the UK’s carbon footprint.

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Liz Truss puts Britain on course to an uncivil war

— Britain wouldn’t be Britain if it didn’t routinely send up people in authority, especially if those people say silly things that also happen to be mean.

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Liz Truss’s unoriginal, unedifying and outdated plan for ‘Growth. Growth. Growth.’

— Liz Truss is out of date. She is half a century late. The UK economy and the world faced different, less complex crosswinds then.

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When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger

— Former PM Gordon Brown’s budget analysis sums up Liz Truss’s government plans perfectly. Wouldn’t it be good to be governed by grown-ups again?

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Back to the other Liz’s world. Shtum, imperious, foxy

— In all the days that the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II lay in state in London, the British government remained shtum, imperious, and foxy.

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There is no escape from history for Britain, its new king and the rest of us

— David Olusoga’s unique perspective stands out in the rushing rivers of reminiscence, royal praise, anecdote and biographical sketch.

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Is the Truss cabinet’s visual diversity any more than just that?

— To all those sincere campaigners for diversity, is visual diversity enough?

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Channel crossings: No “soundbite” or “three word answer”.

— I had a dream last night where I was briefing a Prime Minister about practical, humane, ways to reduce channel crossings. You could tell it was a dream because they actually listened.

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Scotland’s Children’s Commissioner challenges Ofgem to protect children from fuel poverty

— Bruce Adamson, Scotland’s Children and Young People’s Commissioner, has today written to Ofgem challenging its decision to raise the energy price cap and expressing his deep concern about the dire consequences that soaring rates of fuel poverty will have on children.

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‘Ukraine fatigue’? A Ukrainian mother-and-daughter story from London

— The mother of one of my Ukrainian friends leaves London next month. She’s going home, my friend says, her eyes lowered. For how long, it’s not clear.