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- 🎧: Alan Rusbridger and @lionelbarber.bsky.social discuss the decline of the Washington Post, and how newsrooms should respond to the Epstein files
- Right-wing firebrand Matthew Goodwin is Reform’s candidate for Gorton and Denton. But his ‘Broken Britain’ mantra is unlikely to convince voters, writes Alan Rusbridger
- 🎥: The latest release of the Epstein files has further tarnished the reputation of Peter Mandelson. But what broader lessons do the files reveal? Peter Geoghegan explains. prospectmagazine.sub...
- The Global South might have responded more sceptically toward Mark Carney’s Davos speech than gushing western liberals. To them, the rules-based order was always honoured in the breach, writes Dr HA Hellyer
- Blair said: “We were elected as New Labour. We shall govern as New Labour.” But does anyone remember what Keir Starmer said on the steps of Downing Street? @peterkellner.bsky.social asks: does anyone care?
- “When the Spanish arrived in 1519, Tenochtitlan was possibly four times larger than London, and much cleaner.” Daniel Rey reviews Paul Gillingham’s MEXICO: A HISTORY. “Mexico has been a vital shaper of world affairs...”
- Keir Starmer is but one lonely man operating the Labour machine. His command of it is total, yet brittle. It could all too easily crack, writes Tom Clark
- “The UK’s culture wars cannot be cleanly cut away from the health of the British economy. A decade of culture war populism has been accompanied by a decade of economic stagnation,” writes Ben Ansell
- There is a danger that Holocaust commemoration will be seen as a tool of the old western order—on the left and right, writes Dave Rich
- 🎥: Peter Geoghegan on the Epstein files: ‘Who else is involved in this sort of access peddling?’
