Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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How long has the royal farce got left?
As the prospect of a King Charles looms nearer, NICK WRIGHT looks at why the monarchy remains so important to the Establishment as public opinion increasingly turns against it
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
JUST OCCASIONALLY the intimate relationship between Britain’s royals and the Saudi Arabian dynasty — a family raised by the masters of the British empire from a nomadic existence to rule over the Arabian sands — is exposed to scrutiny.
When Turkish intelligence let it be known that they had audio on the 2018 dismemberment — by royal appointment — of the Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi the carefully contrived image of Mohammed Bin Salman as an enlightened ruler virtuously engaged in modernising his desert kingdom took a fatal hit.
The assassination was carried out by the personal entourage of Salman. After secret “trials” three of his top security officials were acquitted, a clutch of junior officials were condemned to death and as the tradition has it, pardoned according to the wishes of Khashoggi’s family whose consent to this procedure was no doubt hastened by a combination of sticks and carrots.
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