'Suella Braverman is gone – but there is still poison in the Tory party's veins'
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Suella Braverman was the pantomime villain, but don't expect the story to change now she's gone
Owen Jones in The Guardian
Suella Braverman's persona as a "pantomime villain", says Owen Jones in The Guardian, makes her ousting as home secretary "all the more satisfying". But her downfall is not a "symbol of [Rishi] Sunak's newfound moderation", Jones adds. Although Braverman has "exited the stage", she "is but a crude distillation of the poison that courses through the Tory party's veins".
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At this rate, wearing a Remembrance poppy will soon be a thing of the past
Michael Deacon in The Telegraph
With a new Ipsos poll showing two-thirds of under-40s don't know Armistice Day is 11 November, the "only possible explanation", argues Michael Deacon in The Telegraph, is that "they don't care". To the young, wearing a poppy is "another quaint, dated habit", and while "we will remember them" is an enduring vow, "for how much longer, I wouldn't like to guess".
The world must start preparing for peacemaking in the Middle East
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Checks and Balances Are for Losers
Jamelle Bouie in The New York Times
If Donald Trump wins a second term, says Jamelle Bouie in The New York Times, he will seek the "unchecked authority of a strongman". Trump has vowed to seek a third term, which would "violate the Constitution", and plans to prosecute his "critics and rivals". But while some may "dismiss the former president's rhetoric" as the "ravings of a lunatic", his words are a "reliable guide to his actions, desires and preoccupations".
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