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BIZARRE: 7 - What They Never Told You

Starmer has promised big – now he must be bold and move quickly. Here’s how he should start

In league with regional mayors, the prime minister can test good ideas in areas like housing. There is promising talent in Labour’s ranks too. Fast track it, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Wednesday briefing: Can Keir Starmer hope to keep his family out of the spotlight?

In today’s newsletter: The Labour leader has kept details about his wife and children private, but that could prove difficult with a move to Downing Street

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This betting scandal is the dying gasp of a tawdry Tory government forever tarred by Partygate and sleaze

Rishi Sunak was meant to clean up the Tory party. Instead he will leave it morally and ideologically exhausted, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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How to see off the threat of Reform? I found one answer on the streets of Boston and Skegness

In the leave-voting Lincolnshire towns, I witnessed a rare sight: a Tory unafraid to stand up to Farage’s party, writes Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Hope is not enough: people want to know that Keir Starmer can fix things

Labour’s downbeat manifesto for a downbeat nation reflects the feeling that voters want action now – not grandiose words, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Social care is a timebomb beneath Britain – why does neither main party have a plan to tackle it?

Plans to fund adult care have been derided as a ‘dementia tax’ or a ‘death tax’. The carers I visited showed me that what they need is both urgent and simple, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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In Tory England, the Lib Dems can smell revenge in the air – and sewage in the rivers

In these still largely prosperous rural heartlands, filthy water has become a surprisingly powerful symbol of national decline, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Working-class kids are being denied a second chance at education

Letters: Yvonne Williams on adult education that is now virtually nonexistent, and Geoff Reid on the non-financial value of a degree

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It’s the Tories who broke Britain, but now they want teenagers to pay for it

Cutting degrees to pay for more apprenticeships is plain barmy – just look at the facts and ask yourself who this is aimed at, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Realism got Starmer here. But so far he’s fighting this election with fantasy economics

Labour is throwing everything at growth and running away from thorny issues such as Brexit, tax rises and our ageing population, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Allies enraged and enemies emboldened – Sunak’s campaign is already a fiasco

The beleaguered PM maximised the only weapon he had left – surprise. But the ruse will worsen his prospects, not improve them, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Sex education is now just another political football. For the children’s sake, the adults must grow up

Teenagers need and want good information about sex. The government’s review, and this ideological tug-of-war, is failing them, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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When Suella Braverman lectures Labour on child poverty, something is very wrong

If even the Tory right-winger sees political capital in opposing the two-child benefit cap, Keir Starmer needs to think again, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Eurovision is a joyful, powerful event – but it can’t carry the weight of the war in Gaza

Although calls for a boycott are understandable, it is wrong to expect pop stars or organisers to fix world affairs, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Disappearing migrants and street revolts. Sunak’s Rwanda round-up is just the mess we knew it would be

The policy has always been a sordid theatre of cruelty, and it is unravelling in ways that were entirely predictable, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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‘Woke’ isn’t dead – it’s entered the mainstream. No wonder the right is furious

When even the Met police and National Trust scones are apparently ‘peak wokerati’, it’s become the establishment norm, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Meghan’s gone from royal upsetter to tradwife in three short years. Given what’s out there, you’d do the same

Her cookery and lifestyle show looks like a sensible retreat from the abuse she’s suffered simply for being a modern black woman, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Liz Truss has kindly offered to ‘save the west’. But who will save her from her delusions?

The former PM’s book claims she was undermined by ‘establishment’ enemies. It instead shows exactly why her friends deserted her, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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It’s fair that Angela Rayner is subject to scrutiny – but not if it’s based on snobbery

Labour’s deputy is of course accountable for any irregularity in her tax affairs. Yet this looks like class-based shaming, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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All hail the ‘mimbys’: the open-minded voters who might just save Labour’s housing plans

With millennials now a political force, Starmer should focus on building houses, because that builds hope, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Universities are a vital public asset. We must save them

Letters: Prof Des Freedman, Michael Bassey, John Sommer and Sally Bates respond to an article about the dire state of Britain’s higher education institutions

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If you really want kids to spend less time online, make space for them in the real world

Tech firms can do more, but it’s the government’s job to ensure children have safe places to play – and it’s not doing it, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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For many of us, boarding school was no gilded life

Letters: Readers, including psychotherapists and former boarders, respond to Gaby Hinsliff’s article about Charles Spencer and the abuse he experienced at school

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The Garrick row is not about women getting in – it’s about the dinosaurs desperate to keep us out

Beleaguered members cite tradition, but this is an attempt to protect powerful men from society’s progress, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Boarding schools can do tremendous harm. Charles Spencer’s bleak memoir proves it

Many boys educated privately hand their trauma to the next generation – and, dangerously, to those who are raised to govern, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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