Pippa Crerar is joined by Katy Balls, Jonathan Freedland and Owen Jones to discuss the resignation of Amber Rudd as home secretary. Plus local government expert Tony Travers previews this week’s council elections
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Think of it as a test. Can you hold two apparently clashing thoughts in your mind at the same time? Or, put another way, can you condemn reprehensible words and deeds when they come from someone whose cause you otherwise believe is just?
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There are battles you think you’ve won, only to discover you need to fight them all over again. Look around and you can see them everywhere: dragons we thought we’d slain – or at least badly injured – decades ago, stirring themselves anew to haunt us once more.
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Which Boris Johnson is your favourite? Are you, perhaps, an admirer of today’s apparently more liberal foreign secretary, who reportedly clashed with the prime minister as he demanded a wider amnesty for Caribbean immigrants from the Windrush generation? Or are you a devotee of the Johnson who led the leave campaign to victory, thanks in large part to opposition to immigration?
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The warmth between them is the camaraderie you often see between rivals now bonded by experience. And the absence of Donald Trump can only have added to the relaxed air of the picture
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The denigration of Robert Mueller and the White Helmets shows the extent to which provable facts are now under siegeThere was a time when, even if we disagreed about the remedy, we did at least agree that the patient was sick. We might argue about the ...
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My friend Phil Hay, who has died of cancer aged 62, was a distinguished broadcast journalist and respected communications official with the World Bank. With a gift for laughter and a talent for friendship, he found his calling in communication.
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Despite the clandestine meetings between Mike Pompeo and Kim Jong-un there are many potential pitfalls on the road to peaceIs a North Korean breakthrough imminent? Is a region at war for more than 60 years about to make peace? And, most unexpectedly of...
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The FBI director sacked by Trump a year ago attempts to justify his pre-election decisions and paints a portrait of the president that could not be uglier
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We are caught between a rock, in the form of the recklessness of Donald Trump, and a hard place, shaped by the cruelty of Bashar al-Assad. This is the choice that now confronts citizens and their representatives in Britain, France and the US. The reasons to resist signing up for any project led by Trump should be obvious, with the newly published testimony of James Comey, the FBI director he fired, providing a fresh reminder.
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