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Nigel Farage has been a threat to every recent UK prime minister. But this is something new
Nigel Farage is making trouble again. Reform, his latest political vehicle, has surged in the polls, moving into first place with some pollsters, and ruffling feathers on Labour back benches.
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The Farage effect: why Keir Starmer is styling Labour as the ‘disruptors’
While Farage has …
The Farage effect: why Keir Starmer is styling Labour as the ‘disruptors’
It only takes a quick look at today’s poll by Opinium for the
Observer
to see why a big tactical rethink (some in the Labour party call it a panic) is under way in Downing Street.
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Nigel Farage has been a threat to every recent …
Proper care for people who are struggling isn’t ‘soft’ – it saves cash
AstraZeneca, Whitehall, and a failed £450m deal for the next generation in vaccines. What went wrong?
At a tense meeting with senior civil servants on the afternoon of 29 January, the chair of AstraZeneca, Shaun Grady, pulled the plug on a planned £450m expansion of its childhood flu vaccine factory in Merseyside – bringing a year and a half of negotiations to an abrupt halt.
The …
Why does the US have it in for gig workers?
The US seems to have it in for gig workers and those who use them.
California – the fifth-largest economy in the world – has significantly curtailed the ability of companies located there to hire independent contractors and freelancers in lieu of employees. The US Department of Labor has issued …
Super Bowl repeat or revenge? Whatever happens, history will be made
A spectre of inevitability hangs over New Orleans in the final run-up to America’s high holy day. The Kansas City Chiefs, having spent the past half-decade as the National Football League’s most dominant force, are on the verge of something never before seen: a third successive Super Bowl title.
Theirs …
Thousands of Syrians in limbo as UK Home Office freezes asylum claims
Show strength and offer a win: experts’ tips for Starmer on dealing with Trump
It was just a few mangled sentences spoken in the darkness on an airport tarmac. But Donald Trump’s comments this week – his most significant yet regarding the UK – were enough to give heart to people in Downing Street and the Foreign Office.
“UK is out of line. But …
‘The world wants more Britain’: David Lammy on Trump, tariffs, Gaza and the Chagos Islands
David Lammy was never a politician to mince his words. He has previously described Brexit as a “national tragedy”, Donald Trump as a “tyrant in a toupee” and called out Italy’s deputy prime minister for “old-school racism”.
But in more recent times, in particular since he took over as foreign …
Elon Musk put a chip in this paralysed man’s brain. Now he can move things with his mind. Should we be amazed - or terrified?
Noland Arbaugh’s life changed in a fraction of a second in June 2016. He was a 22-year-old student, working at a kids’ summer camp in upstate New York, when he went swimming in a lake. He can’t tell me exactly what happened, but thinks one of his friends must have …