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🔺Exclusive: The prime minister says he’s focused on bigger issues than Peter Mandelson or calls for his resignation. Most Labour MPs quietly back me, he tells Josh Glancy ⬇️

Keir Starmer: ‘I can win the next election’

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EXC I spent the past week interviewing Keir Starmer - He is 'going nowhere' and believes he can fight the next election - "There is always talk, the vast majority of the PLP is loyal" - No regrets over sacking Olly Robbins. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Keir Starmer: ‘I can win the next election’

The prime minister says he’s focused on bigger issues than Peter Mandelson or calls for his resignation. Most Labour MPs quietly back me, he tells Josh Glancy

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Incredibly balanced, sensible and realistic column this week by @joshglancy.bsky.social. It is nice for a British writer to appear in a British paper and reflect on the EU side of this conversation for once. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

‘Swiss cheese’ Brexit reset will be a nightmare on repeat

Events are pushing Britain and the EU together. But it’s a painful and expensive process

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Labour's realignment with the EU will be slow, painful and expensive. But they are right to do it anyway, because Brexit isn't working My @thetimes.com column www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

British Jews turning their anger on a vituperative Guardian column felt like angst looking for somewhere safe to land

How the Great Croissant War became a proxy for Jewish anxiety in a world on fire

British Jews turning their anger on a vituperative Guardian column felt like anxiety looking for somewhere safe to land

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How do I feel about the war in Iran? Like I'm on a very, very narrow bridge. My @jewishnews.bsky.social column www.jewishnews.co.uk/on-a-very-na...

On a very narrow bridge, pride, dread and doubt jostle for space

In an era where nations simply “do things”, courage and recklessness look perilously alike

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🧵In today’s Times @joshglancy.bsky.social has a brilliant write up of our focus groups he sat in on. Definitely read it in full! But I want to focus on two voters: Kylie & Eve I think have outsized importance in explaining today’s politics www.thetimes.com/article/b75e...

There is a lot to be said for this letter in today's Times

Richard Hermer vs David Wolfson Born 1968, silk 2009, attorneys general 2024. Yet the differences between them tells the story of the crossroads Anglo-Jewry has reached My @jewishnews.bsky.social column thttps://www.jewishnews.co.uk/hermer-and-wolfson-the-fault-line-running-through-anglo-jewry/

Theodor Meron survived the Holocaust, found refuge in Israel, helped set up the ICC, then aged 93 indicted Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes. He stands by his decision. It was fascinating to interview him www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

The Holocaust survivor judge who issued Netanyahu’s arrest warrant

Theodor Meron, still going strong at 95, escaped the Nazis with his father and became a serious force in international law, helping to found the ICC

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Suitably tentative by @joshglancy.bsky.social on whether Wes Streeting is all comms and no substance 1/2 thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Such an interesting insight from @joshglancy.bsky.social that I hope others pick up. It’s great that Trump has caught up with us on Farage but what does he consider to be ‘real’? Is there a snake oil that works?

Has the Trump-Farage bromance cooled? One very well-placed source tells me that the president has "lost faith" with his former pal www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

SCOOP Keir Starmer has been invited to join the Gaza board of peace by the Trump administration. Former PM Tony Blair's candidacy for the board, which will in theory administer the strip's transition to a post-Hamas future, was dropped last year. times-comment.com/starmer-trump

The world’s rules have changed — Starmer must spell out Britain’s plan

All this Trump whispering and swallowed pride will count for little unless the PM can explain the sacrifices that lie ahead

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With almost every dominant issue of today — from welfare spending to court backlogs, NHS waiting lists, school absenteeism and the national debt — the pandemic’s aftershocks are at or near the heart of the matter. (£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... By @joshglancy.bsky.social

There’s a reason Britain’s in the doldrums — but we don’t talk about it

From schools to courts to the economy, the impacts of the pandemic are everywhere, and yet barely mentioned. Painful as it is, we must confront them

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- Two child benefit cap to be abolished after all - Deep frustrations from team Reeves about Gordon Brown's unhelpful interventions on the issue - Lots of blame for the chaotic budget process being levelled at Torsten Bell My @thetimes.com pre-budget read www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

How Rachel Reeves’s grand vision became a battle for survival

The chancellor took over at the Treasury promising to turn Britain around — after 16 months of missteps and misfortune she doesn’t look so clever

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Mass deportation of people with indefinite leave to remain was official Tory party policy - until Katie Lam spelled it out to me in a newspaper interview. And now it ... isn't

Even when this war somehow ends and takes the temperature of life down a few degrees, the long-term trends in this country and elsewhere are all heading the wrong way, writes Josh Glancy

OPINION: The innocence of Anglo-Jewry ended this Yom Kippur

Even when this war somehow ends and takes the temperature of life down a few degrees, the long-term trends in this country and elsewhere are all heading the wrong way, writes Josh Glancy

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I wrote a column for @jewishnews.bsky.social on the shattering of Anglo-Jewish innocence. And what may come next. www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-the-...

OPINION: The innocence of Anglo-Jewry ended this Yom Kippur - Jewish News

Even when this war somehow ends and takes the temperature of life down a few degrees, the long-term trends in this country and elsewhere are all heading the wrong way, writes Josh Glancy

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Keir Starmer's lack of "vision" and "narrative" has become a cliche at this point. But this isn't just a PR problem. It has a real cost - in muddled hiring decisions and Whitehall not knowing what is it the PM actually wants to do. My @thetimes.com column www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Starmer and his grown-ups can’t just invent a bold identity

The prime minister once described his pragmatism with pride. Now the absence of clear vision is becoming existential

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🔎 Analysis: Labour MPs had hoped he’d take the fight to Nigel Farage by now. But here comes the budget … and, hanging over everything, the small boats crisis ⬇️

Is Keir Starmer blowing it? The PM is in for a stormy autumn

Labour MPs had hoped he’d take the fight to Nigel Farage by now. But here comes the budget … and, hanging over everything, the small boats crisis

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Went on The Times podcast to talk about the Green Party leadership race and the new energy mustering on the left of British politics

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Here's why Britain's Left is radicalising ⬇️ 🎙️Listen now on The Story podcast: pod.fo/e/3222bb 🗣️ @joshglancy.bsky.social‬

A world class piece of reporting from the streets of Haiti by Louise Callaghan. Heartrending, terrifying, quietly furious www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...

Inside Haiti: where women are raped on the street and gangs rule

The capital of the Caribbean nation of Haiti is now at the mercy of gangs bent on kidnap, rape and murder. Louise Callaghan meets their victims — and confronts a warlord

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For today's @thetimes.com read, I spoke to Labour MPs ahead of a seismic autumn for Starmer. The mood is ... existential 'It’s been a bizarrely quiet summer' 'I’m staggered by the lack of direction' 'It can’t carry on at this pace. It’s not sustainable' www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Is Keir Starmer blowing it? The PM is in for a stormy autumn

Labour MPs had hoped he’d take the fight to Nigel Farage by now. But here comes the budget … and, hanging over everything, the small boats crisis

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In June 2022, Lee Hsien Yang and his wife Fern received an early police knock at their Singapore apartment. They flew to London and claimed asylum. But why had the son of Lee Kuan Yew fled his own country? They tell their full story here, for the first time www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...

Succession in Singapore: a bungalow row and a brother in London exile

The city state has been scandalised by a battle between the two sons of Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore. One brother has fled to the UK for his and his wife’s safety. The source of the r...

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The PM tells Josh Glancy it is "total bollocks" that Morgan McSweeney (not Keir Starmer) is in charge of the Starmer project www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

‘It’s not an excuse but I was distracted’: Keir Starmer on the benefits U-turn and his toughest week yet

A year into the job and foundering in the polls, can the prime minister convince an impatient electorate to stick with his steady approach to fixing Britain? Josh Glancy meets him in No 10, Ipswich an...

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It'll be two years, this Monday night. Time, at last, to write about Agnes.

The Long Goodbye

Time, at last, to write about Agnes.

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Ukraine’s destruction of expensive warplanes with simple flying bombs was Russia’s Pearl Harbor moment. The technology is changing faster than you think

Killer drones are changing war — and may soon think for themselves

Ukraine’s destruction of expensive warplanes with simple flying bombs was Russia’s Pearl Harbor moment. The technology is changing faster than you think

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Is ChatGPT destroying the university degree as we know it? Or can it be harnessed for good? On the cover of this week's News Review is an excellent if terrifying report, by @louise-eccles.bsky.social and @lottiemayhayton.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

‘An existential crisis’: can universities survive ChatGPT?

Students are using AI to cheat and professors are struggling to keep up. If an AI can do all the research and writing, what is the point of a degree?

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