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I've interviewed Reform UK voters – and they're much more progressive than you might think | Sacha Hilhorst
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Opinion | The GuardianYesterday

I've interviewed Reform UK voters – and they're much more progressive than you might think | Sacha Hilhorst

I’ve interviewed at length people in post-industrial northern England.

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It may not feel like it, but hope is on the horizon: Trump, Netanyahu and Putin’s powers appear to be waning | Simon Tisdall

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The release of the UFO files won’t satisfy conspiracy theorists – but it certainly serves Trump’s agenda | Daniel Lavelle
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Opinion | The GuardianMay 16

The release of the UFO files won’t satisfy conspiracy theorists – but it certainly serves Trump’s agenda | Daniel Lavelle

The US Department of Defense released the first batch of its UFO files last week at the direction of the president, Donald Trump, who promised to make them public “based...

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No more chancers or failures – the coming contest must produce a British PM worthy of the name | Jonathan Freedland
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Opinion | The GuardianMay 15

No more chancers or failures – the coming contest must produce a British PM worthy of the name | Jonathan Freedland

Labour must rise to a historic responsibility by choosing a leader who can win over the nation. The alternative is Farage on the steps of No 10, says Guardian columnist...

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Labour is being destroyed by dithering: it should either do Brexit properly or rejoin the EU | Larry Elliott
Opinion|Opinion | The Guardian|May 14

Labour is being destroyed by dithering: it should either do Brexit properly or rejoin the EU | Larry Elliott

Ten years on from the referendum, Brexit still shapes British politics. It has smashed the two-party duopoly and continues to divide the country. Keir Starmer’s struggle to remain prime minister after last.

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You’ve heard the king’s speech – but I think a better one might run like this | David Blunkett
Opinion|Opinion | The Guardian|May 14

You’ve heard the king’s speech – but I think a better one might run like this | David Blunkett

If I were in government I’d propose a very different response to the challenges we face – starting with protecting people from the cost of living, says former Labour home secretary David Blunkett.

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For three years I scoured the world for answers to Europe’s big problems – here’s what I found
Opinion|Opinion | The Guardian|May 14

For three years I scoured the world for answers to Europe’s big problems – here’s what I found

It’s mid-afternoon in Fujisawa. Schoolchildren, rucksacks on their backs, bound into a room where a group of pensioners welcome them boisterously, before sitting them down to help with their homework. This.

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David Attenborough is not just a national treasure: he is also the most radical person on TV | Jonathan Liew
Opinion|Opinion | The Guardian|May 13

David Attenborough is not just a national treasure: he is also the most radical person on TV | Jonathan Liew

The naturalist is venerated as a cuddly Paddington Bear, but he’s more than that. Don’t let the superficial backslaps obscure the political critique he makes, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew.

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Labour needs a battle of ideas now, not a scramble to snatch the keys to No 10 | Rafael Behr
Opinion|Opinion | The Guardian|May 13

Labour needs a battle of ideas now, not a scramble to snatch the keys to No 10 | Rafael Behr

Labour has spent much of the past year paralysed by competing fears. MPs’ dread of facing voters with Keir Starmer as prime minister has been kept in check by their recoil from the process of replacing him.

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Cannes is a beautiful, gruelling circus. I wouldn’t quit it for anything | Agnès Poirier
Opinion|Opinion | The Guardian|May 13

Cannes is a beautiful, gruelling circus. I wouldn’t quit it for anything | Agnès Poirier

Nothing prepares you for the shock that is the Cannes film festival: the adrenaline, the fatigue, the elation and the emotion, but also the hunger, the anger, the magic and the ridicule. For young cinephiles,.

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