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The best course left to the Tories is to oust Liz Truss – and install a caretaker leader

A unifier like Michael Gove could prepare the party for effective opposition, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Truss U-turned on tax cuts for the super-rich – now she can axe the rest of her disastrous budget

If the PM and Kwasi Kwarteng want to stem public fury, they must go further, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Trussonomics has been exposed as a childish absurdity. Trussopolitics is even worse

The prime minister and Kwasi Kwarteng must now eat humble pie and try to steer Britain out of the crisis they created, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Pouring cash into London to solve regional inequality? That’s trickle-down Trussonomics

The UK economy needs the rest of the country to help reverse decades of decline, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Putin’s nuclear threat shows a desperate man out of options

Using such weapons has no tactical purpose – it would only lose the Russian president support at home and abroad, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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All this pomp and splendour proves it: without our support the royals can’t survive

The public mourning for the Queen has been a PR triumph. But this shouldn’t disguise the need for reform, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Why is Liz Truss sacking top civil servants? Because she wants to suppress dissent

This is government Trump-style, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Facile, empty and cliched – Liz Truss’s first week has been a disaster

The new prime minister made promises on the campaign trail she hoped would be forgotten. She is already paying the price, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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The first thing Prime Minister Liz Truss needs to do? U-turn on everything she believes in

She’s a small-state ideologue, but all that matters is that she carries the UK through this economic crisis, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Britain’s traumatised education system needs a break – and a decent minister

After two-plus years of Covid and seven secretaries of state in the past six years, teachers and students deserve more support, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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The first task for a Prime Minister Truss: get Sunak back into cabinet

Her rival to the Tory throne would at least bring some coherence to an otherwise extraordinarily lightweight front bench, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Truss’s warmongering rhetoric is empty, antagonistic – and wildly dangerous

The potential PM’s plan to cut benefits and boost defence spending merely serves her craving for the theatre of conflict, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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England’s water industry now represents the unacceptable face of capitalism

Million-pound salaries for bosses, billions for shareholders – all while sewage is dumped in our rivers and sea, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Do you want free speech to thrive? Then it has to be regulated, now more than ever

The online safety bill in the UK is shaping up to be a censor’s nightmare, but we need to take this debate seriously, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Who knows if Truss or Sunak is right on the cost of living crisis – where are all the economists?

The profession seems to have gone AWOL, just when we could do with a bit of modelling on tax cuts v handouts, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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The west cannot dissociate itself from the conflict in Ukraine

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Simon Jenkins which argued that western countries should be ready to back away from Russia’s invasion, rather than risk provoking a global war

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In Taiwan, as in Ukraine, the west is flirting with disaster

It’s one thing to declare yourself ‘rather dead than red’, quite another to inflict that decision on the rest of us, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Sanctions against Russia are not backfiring

Letters: Immoral behaviour must be challenged, says David Sutherland, while Scott Blau highlights the economic effects, and Bohdan Kisil says the moral effect on Ukrainians is incalculable

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Liz Truss’s Oxbridge proposal is the latest vacuous idea from a slapstick Tory race

The ill-thought-out ideas issuing from Britain’s prime ministerial candidates are a cause for alarm, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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The rouble is soaring and Putin is stronger than ever - our sanctions have backfired

Energy prices are rocketing, inflation is soaring and millions are being starved of grain. Surely Johnson knew this would happen, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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There is one man to blame for the lorries backed up in Dover: Boris Johnson

Tory leadership candidates, as they spout their pseudo-Thatcherite cliches, lack the guts to admit Brexit is not working, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Being ‘economical with the truth’ has a long history in British politics – but enough is enough

Liz Truss’s claim that tax cuts will reduce inflation are eerily reminiscent of Boris Johnson’s infamous style, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Who will be Britain’s next prime minister, Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss?

Only two candidates are left in the race to be next leader of the Conservative party. Our panellists tell us who they think will win

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Why the Labour party is praying for the Tories not to vote for Rishi Sunak

In the race for the top job there’s the alumni of Academy Boris – and then there’s the former chancellor, Keir Starmer’s biggest headache, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Time to repair the fabric of our disunited kingdom

Letters: Paul Tattam calls for a good-humoured national debate about the future of the union, and Iain Forbes says the problem is many English people don’t seem to care about it. Plus letters from John Skrine and Michael Cunningham

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