‘Frockgate’:Keir Starmer’s love for freebies ends his short-lived honeymoon
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UK politics

‘Frockgate’:Keir Starmer’s love for freebies ends his short-lived honeymoon

The PM had hoped for a quiet summer after his election triumph. The calm is being disturbed by the controversy about him accepting gifts worth tens of thousands of pounds.

  • byRob Harris

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High-profile BBC newsreader avoids jail over indecent images of children

High-profile BBC newsreader avoids jail over indecent images of children

Huw Edwards,who announced the death of Elizabeth II and fronted several major news events,was handed a six-month prison sentence,suspended for two years.

  • byRob Harris
Why Larry the cat of 10 Downing Street wishes Starmer hadn’t won the election
Opinion
Opinion

Why Larry the cat of 10 Downing Street wishes Starmer hadn’t won the election

This all seems a gigantic first-world problem for Larry,who could be on the mean streets of Ohio getting eaten by Trump’s illegal immigrants.

  • byMichelle Cazzulino
‘It will be painful’:In major speech,British PM paints gloomy picture

‘It will be painful’:In major speech,British PM paints gloomy picture

Keir Starmer tells Britons their country is in a societal and economic “black hole”,and warns of rising taxes and spending cuts.

  • byWilliam Booth
The spirit of the London Games has gone up in flames. Brace for Paris to torch the legacy

The spirit of the London Games has gone up in flames. Brace for Paris to torch the legacy

As we saw in London and Sydney,the celebratory multicultural and liberal triumphs of the Games are quickly followed by illiberal kickbacks.

  • byNick Bryant
‘Stop the boats’ anti-immigrant rioters chant as London eyes hostile states

‘Stop the boats’ anti-immigrant rioters chant as London eyes hostile states

With further demonstrations planned this week,the riots are a test of British policing and the country’s judicial and prisons system,which were already creaking at the seams.

  • byAlex Wickham andSiraj Datoo
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English riots,social media and the running sore of British politics
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Crime

English riots,social media and the running sore of British politics

Young people attracted by social media to the thrill of violence rather than the social engineering and ideology have joined racist right-wingers to try and take over the streets of England.

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Can a rookie PM stop the riots without adding fuel to the fires?

Can a rookie PM stop the riots without adding fuel to the fires?

Labour has responded judiciously to the recent ‘far-right thuggery’. But can it fix the UK’s immigration issues without giving Nigel Farage political oxygen?

  • byTim Soutphommasane
‘Far-right thuggery’:British rioters set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers

‘Far-right thuggery’:British rioters set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has vowed to do what it takes to “bring these thugs to justice” after another day of far-right violence in the UK.

  • byPan Pylas
For once,we will vote at the polls on policy,not politics

For once,we will vote at the polls on policy,not politics

This rare period of unity within both alternative parties of government means the next election will,refreshingly,be focused on ideas.

  • byGeorge Brandis
Energy policy is becoming Australia’s own Brexit,and proving just as intractable
Opinion
Energy

Energy policy is becoming Australia’s own Brexit,and proving just as intractable

If the Coalition isn’t making up the policy as it’s going along,then it’s doing a Vegas-level impression of a political outfit that is.

  • byShaun Carney