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Wed 16 Sept 2026

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quote  The Letby inquiry report makes one thing crystal clear: too much NHS management is scandalously poor
Tom Dolphin
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quote  I have faced abuse, assaults and death threats because I’m an MP. It’s making politics a no-go zone
Dawn Butler
A woman checks her phone walking past a Sobyanin and Tolstoy election billboard, Moscow skyscrapers behind
quote  To understand the threat to our real democracy, watch Putin’s fake one
Rafael Behr
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Reform UK party conference, in BirminghamBritain's Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage gestures with his jacket during an interview with TV host Jeremy Kyle on the sidelines of the Reform UK's annual party conference in Birmingham, Britain, September 5, 2026. REUTERS/Isabel Infantes
quote  Big-money donations poison British politics. We can stop the mega-rich buying access and influence
Gordon Brown
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quote  It’s my self-care hack of the year: I quit our local veg box scheme, and set my mind free
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Variety's 2025 Power of Women Los Angeles, Presented by Lifetime - ArrivalsSydney Sweeney at Variety's 2025 Power of Women Los Angeles, Presented by Lifetime at the Beverly Hills Hotel on October 29, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)
quote  Are you outraged by Sydney Sweeney – again? More fool you
Marina Hyde
‘Polls encourage us all to see politics as a kind of game within a game’.
quote  Polling turns politics into one big game. There are too many of them – and that does us no good
Jonathan Liew
Two policemen, one in a hi-vis vest and another with a bobby hat, look at a a tall pile of e-scooters and modified electric motorbikes fused together
quote  When is an ebike not an ebike? When it has a powerful, illegal engine. Get this menace off our roads
Peter Walker
Polling station signs outside Canford Cliffs library during local council elections, Poole, 4 May 2023.
quote  Thank goodness Labour’s ‘shambolic’ plan to reorganise local councils has been paused. What was it thinking?
Polly Toynbee
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