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August 14, 2026
So Nigel Farage has beaten a man in a bin. But he's in deep trouble, and he knows it | Owen Jones
The Reform leader claims vindication from the people, and it’s too early to write him off. But the problems he now faces may be more than he can bearNigel Farage is a rattled, embattled politician....
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July 21, 2026
Healey as chancellor? Streeting as defence secretary? This isn’t a cabinet to change the UK like Burnham promised | Owen Jones
Putting Ed Miliband in charge of the Treasury would have signalled a genuine new era. Instead, the new PM has played it safeAndy Burnham has promised to bring “four decades of neoliberalism” to an ...
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June 29, 2026
Good vibes from PM-in-waiting Andy Burnham today – but vibes won’t be enough. I hope he knows that | Owen Jones
His big speech showed promise, but the need is urgent. Keir Starmer failed to fix a broken economic model; Burnham must not make the same mistakeToday’s speech by Andy Burnham underlines that he re...
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June 23, 2026
Look at Keir Starmer’s tenure as prime minister. This is no ‘decent man’ who got unlucky | Owen Jones
From Gaza to the Peter Mandelson row, his abandoned pledges to the ‘island of strangers’ claim, Starmer’s time at No 10 was truly dismalGood riddance, Keir Starmer. No sooner had the toppled prime ...
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June 10, 2026
There are no guardrails now on the right of UK politics: where Restore Britain goes, others will follow | Owen Jones
In the UK – and across the west - incendiary language and white supremacist policies are entering the political mainstreamWhat qualifies as too rightwing these days? It’s a question I’ve considered...
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