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January 2025

Deep in the weeds with Keir Starmer
Unpicking the Prime Minister's article for The Times to understand more about the emptiness of modern political language.
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Cold day in The Sun
Rupert Murdoch's UK empire has finally admitted to unlawful activity at The Sun but a real reckoning will never come.
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Trump Stakes
Reviewing UK coverage of Donald Trump's second inauguration so you don't have to...
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Always too soon
The Daily Mail ropes in a tame academic to take advantage of Tony Slattery's death.
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Dancing with Kissinger's Ghost
Michael Gove's column in praise of the IDF gives the corpse of satire another kick...
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December 2024

The 24 Worst Columns of 2024, Part 4: Sexy Starmer, doctor dictators, Farage fan fiction, and armageddon...
After climbing through an avalanche of awful columns, we've finally reached the summit of 2024's most egregious opinions.
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The 24 worst columns of 2024, part three: Pity for public school boys, the war on traffic wardens, and a headbanger in denial
It's the Christmas gift that was on nobody's list: The penultimate part of this year's countdown of calamitous column writing...
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The 24 worst columns of 2024, part two: Noxious 90s nostalgia, racist dogs and Trumpian compliments...
Our annual look at the commentariat's most contemptuous content continues.
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The 24 worst columns of 2024, part one: Lime Bikes, landlords, Boris books, and sacrilegious hot cross buns...
After another year of digging through the British press' most disagreeable opinions, it's time for our annual countdown of hand-picked hate reads...
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Watching The Observer
As Tortoise's bid to buy The Observer slowly inches forward and the newspaper's staff go out on strike, what's going to happen next?
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November 2024

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