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Harry Lambert is a former staff writer and editor at the New Statesman. He also edited the Saturday Read newsletter. He has written cover features on universities, No 10, the BBC, Labour, AI and tax.
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Rage and conspiracy on Trump’s trail
At a rally in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, a fervid former president kept his audience rapt. Suburbs like this will soon…
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The coalition government’s generational failure
Degrees cost four times what they did before 2012, when the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats increased the amount universities…
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Confessions of a City trader
Gary Stevenson’s rags-to-riches memoir exposes a system where the rich can’t lose and the economy is choked by inequality.
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Rashid Khalidi: “Israel is stealing land as we speak”
The Columbia University professor on 7 October, Israel’s response, Barack Obama’s betrayal, and his book, The Hundred Years’ War…
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Is Joe Biden toast?
The US president is expected to lose the 2024 election. But polls suggest there’s still one way he could…
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Eitan Shamir: “In the end, the levelling of Gaza also poses an opportunity”
The Israeli military strategist on how 7 October happened, Israel’s endgame in Gaza and the prospect of a regional…
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Dominic Cummings’ saviour complex
The former No 10 aide cast himself as a dormant, blameless character until his pivotal intervention.
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Anatomy of a disaster
How a rush to report on the hospital blast in Gaza led Joe Biden’s Middle East summit to collapse…
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