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Forget the Country, Save the Party.
Keir Starmer’s leadership rivals promise to prove the Farage populists right. Changing the prime minister does not address Britain’s problems.
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America has left the West
The Nato alliance is beyond repair. The future of Atlanticism is transactional
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Let’s admit it. Americans are not like us
The Atlantic alliance is over. The best to hope for is an entente recognising Europe and the US still have shared interests
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The fall and fall of Tony Blair
Never has a former prime minister so tarnished their own reputation
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Epstein, Mandelson and the rise of Farage
The scandal that brought down Peter Mandelson describes a world that is driving voters into the arms of populism
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Forget the country. Save the party
The world may be burning but members of Britain’s governing Labour party seem more interested in a fight over the leadership
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Europe cannot forever indulge Trump
France, Germany and Britain must now draw their own red lines for the transatlantic relationship
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