Mad, bad and dangerous to know: we are witnessing the Tories' final descent into absurdity
Rafael Behr for The Guardian
The Conservative conference has been a "festival of complaint" by a party that is "no longer serious about government", writes Rafael Behr for The Guardian. The Tories "don’t like a country that is shaped by 13 years of their rule" but "prefer not to take responsibility", so "have developed a keen reflex for diverting blame". This "spectacle" is "not just the endgame of a tired government" but also "the late stages of moral and intellectual putrefaction".
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Suella Braverman's Tory conference speech was superb for its blunt honesty
The Sun Says
The Left "loathe her", and Suella Braverman's conference performance "showed why", says The Sun's leader article. The home secretary "nailed the complacency and denial at the heart of Labour’s facile approach to mass illegal immigration", in a speech that was "superb for its blunt honesty". Her critics "need only look at the vast numbers pouring illegally across the borders of the EU or America, as well as ours, to know she is right", the paper argues.
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Nato won't win a long war in Ukraine
Thomas Fazi on UnHerd
An "Afghanistan-style conflict could cripple Europe", warns Thomas Fazi. The Ukraine war "is perceived as an existential struggle" not only by Kiev, he writes for UnHerd, "but also by Russia and the US", who "know that the outcome of this conflict will have massive geopolitical ramifications". For both, "military defeat" is "not an option", but neither is a settlement that may be interpreted as "defeat". And "if American military assistance starts to wane", Europe "will need to carry more of the burden".
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The Republican Party is an unserious mess
Rex Huppke for USA Today
The Republican Party's House Members are "clearly engaged in a civil war between far-right extremists and what passes these days for moderate Republicans", writes Rex Huppke for USA Today, "with 'moderate' meaning slightly less extreme". In causing "disarray" by "ousting their own speaker", as Donald Trump was "targeting an innocent law clerk and sitting in his own fraud trial", the GOP shattered "any illusions" that America has two "functioning" political parties.
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