The Prime Minister and his advisers spent years dismissing questions about Mandelson's relationship with the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein
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Starmer must square his claimed disgust about Mandelson's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, with his embrace of Trump, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK, reports Peter Jukes
What we are starting to witness is the nascent elements of a complete authoritarian takeover, reports Alexandra Hall Hall from Washington
The Trump administration's attempts to downplay human rights abuses globally suggests they want to make it easier to violate them domestically, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
The number of homeless Americans over 50 is expected to triple by 2030 as Trump unveils massive cuts to social safety net programmes, reports Mary O'Hara
The United States' former ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, tells Alexandra Hall Hall that she couldn't "in good conscience" execute the President's plans for the country
From Covid to climate change, understanding the role unevidenced conspiracy theories fulfil for individual and social identity in a shifting world can better help explain our ‘post-truth’ age
Many thanks to Hannah for her beautiful post on George Eliot’s Silas Marner and the evacuation of moral purpose from the Protestant work ethic. That resonates with Hijacked, my latest book, which traces the history of the work ethic from 17th century Puritan theologians, through the economic theory and policy debates of the 18th and […]
New polling suggests that voters do not want the President to further involve the US in the Middle East conflict