Opinion
Elevenses: The Photoshoot Chancellor
From the newsletter: Rishi Sunak's reputation - and hopes for higher office - hinge on the cost-of-living crunch.
Minister caught having affair on CCTV takes moral high ground over legal win due to technicality
"Look who has crawled out of his kissing corner," tweeted one person after reading Hancock's gloating message.
Elevenses: Gaslighting Britain
From the newsletter: The Tories want to conflate Ukraine and the cost-of-living crunch. Will it work?
Why I’m taking in Ukrainian refugees
And why, in the same breath, I feel deeply uncomfortable about it.
Elevenses: The Fallacy of Hope
From the newsletter: As war in Ukraine enters its fourth week, is there any prospect of resolution?
‘Don’t mention the war’: How journalists in Russia have responded to the Kremlin’s clampdown on media
"In effect, the practice of independent journalism in Russia has become impossible."
A letter from Gaza: Finding pride in hardship
By Caolán Magee and Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh
Elevenses: The Pendulum Swings
Vladimir Putin is standing tall on the shoulders of the West's fallen giants.
What about our own ‘filthy rich’ oligarchs?
Oligarchs indicate patterns of inequality that are socially destructive. If they are not challenged the liberal democracy, for which the valiant people of Ukraine are fighting, will not prevail.