Brave Labour MPs have voted with their conscience. Where is Keir Starmer’s?
Owen Jones in The Guardian
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Human rights treaties have had their day
Juliet Samuel in The Times
With Rishi Sunak's Rwanda scheme "dead in the water", writes Juliet Samuel for The Times, the UK should "lead an effort to renegotiate the treaties that make it impossible, in an era of much higher migration, to control our borders". Regardless of "blood-curdling rhetoric, righteous feeling or kamikaze legislative tactics, you cannot govern if you do not actually wield any control over our institutions". Surely Conservatives, "of all people, ought to understand that".
With all eyes on the Middle East, does the west have a viable strategy for Ukraine?
Ivan Krastev in the Financial Times
Faced with the "grim reality" of a stalled counteroffensive, and in the aftermath of Hamas's attack on Israel and the latter's response, "many observers are asking whether the west still has a viable strategy for dealing with the Russian war in Europe", says Ivan Krastev in the Financial Times. Public opinion surveys show "more people interested in when the war will end than in how it will end", as "both hawks and doves on Ukraine have started to appear dangerously divorced from reality".
Nigel Farage is a gameshow king
Mary Harrington on UnHerd
"In all the hue and cry over Tory civil war, the scotching of the populist experiment, and – some say – betrayal of a once-vaunted political realignment, the week's other political bombshell was buried," writes Mary Harrington for UnHerd. But the "latest round of Westminster court drama" and Nigel Farage's appearance on "I'm A Celebrity" tell the "same story" – that "far from being a failure, the much-hailed post-Brexit realignment has been a roaring success. It's just not the realignment we wanted."
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Can Mike Johnson keep his job?Today's Big Question GOP women come after the House leader
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A postapocalyptic trip to Sin City, a peek inside Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour, and an explicit hockey romance in December TVthe week recommends This month’s new television releases include ‘Fallout,’ ‘Taylor Swift: The End Of An Era’ and ‘Heated Rivalry’
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‘These accounts clearly are designed as a capitalist alternative’
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Is a Reform-Tory pact becoming more likely?Today’s Big Question Nigel Farage’s party is ahead in the polls but still falls well short of a Commons majority, while Conservatives are still losing MPs to Reform
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‘It’s critical that Congress get involved’Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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Ukraine and Rubio rewrite Russia’s peace planFeature The only explanation for this confusing series of events is that ‘rival factions’ within the White House fought over the peace plan ‘and made a mess of it’
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‘The choice isn’t between domestic and foreign talent; the nation was built on both’Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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The launch of Your Party: how it could workThe Explainer Despite landmark decisions made over the party’s makeup at their first conference, core frustrations are ‘likely to only intensify in the near-future’
