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Three reasons why the UK should break with Trump
(America is not our friend)
Sep 17 • 
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Charlie Kirk and the dictator’s playbook
Hitler, Stalin, Putin…Trump?
Sep 16 • 
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America against democracy
Interview with Anne Appelbaum
Sep 15 • 
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Why is it so hard to believe that Trump is a Russian asset?
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No one can kid themselves now: Trump’s America is our enemy
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Trump’s true enemy isn’t China or Russia but liberal democracy
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A far-right empire: Trump’s America is Europe’s new enemy
Mar 9 • Nick Cohen
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Europe can’t keep crawling to Trump’s USA
Apr 27 • Nick Cohen
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Elon Musk is pushing Western democracy to breaking point
Mar 21 • Nick Cohen
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When will our spineless leaders speak for liberal Britain?
Cowardice enables the radical right
Sep 14 • 
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Trump’s Reichstag Moment
One law for the left and another for the right
Sep 12 • 
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Starmer was a fool to tie himself to Mandelson and Blair
The corruption of the Third Way never dies
Sep 11 • 
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The madness of King Bibi
Nemesis invariably follows hubris
Sep 10 • 
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Elon Musk, Nigel Farage and the right’s spiral of extremism
Podcast and piece on erasing the boundaries that keep the bully boys out
Sep 9 • 
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Cometh the hour, cometh the conman
This is how democracy dies: not with a bang but a simper
Sep 7 • 
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Gay liberation in danger?
Radical hubris produces reactionary backlashes
Sep 6 • 
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