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‘If we accept an endless deluge of algorithmic sludge, we should not be surprised when the big screen becomes little more than a blown-up version of the phone screen’ | Spencer A Klavan buff.ly/oLz8xRC

Is the age of slop films coming to an end?

This could turn out to be a pivotal summer for movies. Spider-Man: Brand New Day — Tom Holland’s fourth feature film as the plucky web-slinger from Queens — just made almost a billion dollars…

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‘The Government is seemingly treating the prison crisis — and it is a crisis — as an administrative problem rather than an emergency’ | Dominic Adler unherd.com/newsroom/don...

Don’t be fooled by Burnham’s prisoner release reform

In a piece of classic New Labour triangulation, Andy Burnham has written an article for the Telegraph on his party’s controversial prison release scheme. Consistent with his man-of-the-people image,…

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The DNC is weathering an onslaught of brutal press reports, less than 100 days before the midterms — internal drama and a dire fiscal situation could hand Republicans easy wins in November | Emily Jashinsky

The DNC is stuck in a death spiral

The Democratic National Committee is weathering an onslaught of brutal press reports, less than 100 days before the midterms. Despite surging momentum in swing states, Democrats are in a dire fiscal…

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‘It’s not realistic to expect 3,000 comprehensive schools to build and staff a trainee nail bar for the one student in three years who wants to be a nail technician.’ | Daisy Christodoulou

Burnham should beware dumbing down

Construction: not for mugs. (Cityscape Digital/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty)

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‘Given that the police service is now recognised as one of the most institutionally misogynistic institutions in the land, it is ironic that a woman with previous exemplary service has been sacked for making off-the-cuff remarks about women’s rights.’ | Julie Bindel

Does the force fear feminists?

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‘Carter, Lasch, and Wolfe: all three understood that the old postwar world was giving way to a society in which the individual self would become the central arena of politics, religion, consumption, health, and meaning.’ | Ryan Zickgraf

The ‘Me Decade’ — 50 years later

The writer Tom Wolfe diagnosed hyperindividualism in the ’70s in his 'New York' essay. Credit: Getty

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‘The North never was Reform’s heartland. Farage’s heart always belonged to Kent.’ | Samuel Rubinstein

Why Farage will vanquish Lowe

The new Wat Tyler? (Carl Court/Getty)

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Rupert Lowe has called for a return of the death penalty. Will Nigel Farage follow suit? | Bethany Elliott

Rupert Lowe could force a Reform U-turn on the death penalty

Capital punishment, that perennial staple of sixth-form debates, is back on the electoral agenda. Restore Britain’s Rupert Lowe announced last weekend that he was willing to negotiate with Nigel…

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‘The old rule was that another person’s body was none of our business. The new rule is that your body is your brand and therefore everybody’s business’ | Ryan Zickgraf

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‘All of these companies have every possible economic incentive to persuade us to inject AI into our lives in ways that displace our old habits’ | Matthew Gasda

Sam Altman’s big idea for parents: more ChatGPT

For OpenAI, 2026 has been a strange year. The company has lost ground to rivals while its CEO, Sam Altman, has shown a greater willingness to slow down development to seek greater cooperation with…

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Tucker Carlson is reportedly launching a new antiwar 'movement' to challenge Donald Trump — the fact that the idea is even being floated shows how far MAGA has drifted from its roots | Sohrab Ahmari

Tucker Carlson’s antiwar movement is Trump’s bad conscience

Will a newly announced conservative antiwar “movement,” spearheaded by the likes of Tucker Carlson, Joe Kent, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Thomas Massie, coalesce into a successful third-party…

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‘As our recent history shows, the problem isn’t the constitution, it’s the ideas and the will of our politicians.’ | Lee David Evans

Andy Burnham doesn’t need a written constitution

Andy Burnham’s premiership may have only just started, but a theme has emerged: the new Prime Minister likes to talk about ideas that are unlikely to happen. Alongside his recent statement that care…

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Rupert Lowe cannot save Restore by fighting Reform. He can save the Right by accepting that Restore has run its course, writes George Spencer 👇

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Nigel Farage's popularity is in freefall. New polling shows that he is by far the most unpopular major party leader, writes Peter Franklin👇

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‘Readmitting Abbott is the political equivalent of hanging an “Under New Management” sign on the Labour Party.’ | John Oxley unherd.com/newsroom/diane-abbotts-return-wont-fix-labour-divisions/

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Could some of the migrants who crossed into Spain this week be making their way towards Britain? | Chris Bayliss

How the Ceuta migrant crisis could come to Britain

Earlier this month, the UK-EU Agreement on Gibraltar entered into force. It marked the culmination of a decade-long political campaign from Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, who had been on…

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‘If Democrats are serious about winning over voters from MAHA, they will need to focus on the movement’s popular concerns without getting bogged down by its more controversial elements.’ | James Billot

Can Democrats claim the MAHA movement?

Ask two people what MAHA stands for and you’ll get three answers. It is a movement so disparate that even its own supporters don’t always agree on the priorities. But as the movement’s alliance with…

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‘Therapists are Rasputins, private priests-for-hire. Most of the therapeutic churches, or ‘modalities’, have rules to keep their congregations safe, such as boundaries that forbid therapists from seeking controlling stakes in family finances.’ | Nina Lyon

Why the rich fall for bullshit therapy

“The rich and powerful are naïve and fallible and weak.” (The White Lotus/HBO)

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‘The priorities of Burnham’s three different camps militate against each other: accepting the notion that the UK’s fiscal position necessitates an enforcing of the rules is ultimately not compatible with planning for industrial revival.’ | Dominik A. Leusder

Burnham is keeping his enemies close

Andy Burnham's court is divided. (Ryan Jenkinson/Getty)

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‘As well as the ageing format, Live at the Apollo has another, unavoidable problem: it has become very uneven and often downright unfunny, as its contributors prioritise progressive political messaging over laughs.’ | Niall Gooch

Live at the Apollo deserves to die

Another round of BBC cuts, and yet more familiar names on the chopping block. This time it’s Live at the Apollo, which has run for more than two decades and has given exposure to many up-and-coming…

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‘Few things symbolise late Soviet decay like the queue. I remember, in 1991, walking to the grocery store from school so I could hold a place in line for my mother when she returned from work.’ | Seva Gunitsky

Will the queue bring down Putin?

Fuel shortages should keep him up at night. (Contributor/Getty)

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