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The Heaton Park attack and the politics of division
By Mhikaella Renee Narciso On October 2nd, 2025, during Yom Kippur - the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, a man drove his car into pedestrians and carried out a knife attack outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester. The attacker, named Jihad Al-Shamie, aged 35, subsequently phoned emergency services pledging allegiance to the terrorist group Islamic State before being shot dead by armed police at the scene. To many British Jews, this was not just


“Let Keir be Keir”: The Downing Street hunt for a Red October
Copenhagen Airport: The Prime Minister descends G-GBNI, a Titan Airways A321neo operated exclusively for the UK Government. This not the...


Lady M and faulty gowns: Why justice matters
By William Raven Self-professing as “one of the UK’s most renowned entrepreneurs” , Baroness Mone of Mayfair has been regularly at the...


Prime Minister’s Questions: Deeply flawed, deeply compelling
By Cianan Sheekey It’s incredibly easy to insult something you don’t particularly like or care for, but it's much more difficult to...


Kruger defects to Reform
By Lily Hatch On the 15th of September 2025, Conservative front bencher and Tory shadow minister for Work and Pensions, Danny Kruger,...


Could Burnham be the answer to Labour's woes?
By Charles Wawn Rumours that Andy Burnham, a key figure in Labour’s soft left, is planning to usurp Keir Starmer as Labour leader and...


Unite the Kingdom rally: When the far-right makes the case against itself
By George Marshall “You either fight back, or you die” . Those were the incendiary words of Elon Musk as he virtually addressed the crowd...


Scrubbed but not forgotten: Everything that was wrong with Banksy’s latest mural
By William Raven The Royal Courts of Justice sits, overlooking central London, as a vast Victorian Gothic monument to the rule of law....


Looking back: A brief critique of the chancellor's economic policy
The UK Labour Party’s term in government has been filled with U-turns and inconsistencies from welfare to protestors rights to tax, ...


Me and Mr Jones: Number 10’s autumn restructure
Starmer greets his newly-appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones in the corridor outside the first-floor Thatcher room,...
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