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37 hours ago

From Tate Modern to Grimsby docks: the team saving Britain’s cherished buildings from the wrecking ball

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Can you imagine Liverpool without its Welsh Streets or London without Battersea Power Station? For 50 years, one small band of activists have been finding creative alternative uses for great building…

33 days ago

From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort | Simon Jenkins

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Keir Starmer is not blameless when it comes to Brexit, but he is moving in the right direction. Even the Tories attacking him know that

For the Tories to attack Keir Starmer’s first step towards a Bre…

51 days ago

Here’s a radical way to save England’s collapsing justice system: get rid of juries | Simon Jenkins

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We’re saddled with an archaic system. As record numbers of trials stall and costs soar, it’s time for us to ditch this relic

Are the middle ages about to end? We all know Magna Cartaset the principle …

75 days ago

Trump’s tariffs are ruinous, but are western sanctions any better? Just look at Syria | Simon Jenkins

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Sanctions as a form of economic aggression are macho and myopic, yet countries including the UK refuse to call a halt

Among the more improbable countries that Donald Trump punished most severely last …

Criticise Trump’s tariffs all you like, but western sanctions aren’t any better – just ask Syria | Simon Jenkins

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This form of economic aggression is macho and myopic, yet countries including the UK refuse to give it up

Among the more improbable countries that Donald Trump punished most severely last week was Syr…

82 days ago

The tariffs are bad, but Britain should remember this: Trump will be gone in four years | Simon Jenkins

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The UK is among those least hit by the US president’s war on the world economy. Retaliation at this point makes no sense

The tirade was astonishing. On Wednesday afternoon the world watched as the lea…

The tariffs are bad, but Britain should remember this: Trump will probably be gone in four years | Simon Jenkins

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The UK is among those least hit by the US president’s war on the world economy. Retaliation at this point makes no sense

The tirade was astonishing. On Wednesday afternoon the world watched as the lea…

90 days ago

Donald Trump is moving fast and breaking things, but that may result in a better US | Simon Jenkins

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The chance of the president succeeding in his radicalism is small, but amid the chaos are challenges to convention that were overdue

“Move fast and break things” was Mark Zuckerberg’s motto in launchi…

3 months ago

Keir Starmer is having his chainsaw moment – but all he will slash is democracy | Simon Jenkins

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The PM sounds like Elon Musk when promising to fight the ‘blockers’, but his government’s plans will weaken the link between peoples and politics

Every new prime minister has an Elon Musk moment. A su…

Putin is not Hitler. His actions in Ukraine are horrific enough to need no exaggeration | Simon Jenkins

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Keir Starmer has said we face the greatest threat to our national security since the cold war. Such hyperbole helps nobody

Is Vladimir Putin another Adolf Hitler? The western world seems to think so. …

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