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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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The public saw Boris Johnson as warmly authentic, then devious and corrupt

He faced phenomenal challenges but had a disrespect for parliament and the public that finally caught up with him, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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The United Kingdom is broken. It’s time for a new British federation

Celtic grievances can no longer be waved away by Whitehall, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Keir Starmer’s Brexit plan is a mouse of a policy – what is he so afraid of?

By refusing to discuss rejoining the single market or the customs union, Labour can’t deal with the ‘fatberg’ of red tape, says Guardian columnist Simon jenkins

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Owning a second home is antisocial behaviour

Letters: Graham Lees, Robin Buck and Janet Thompson respond to Simon Jenkins’ article in which he said second homes can be a blight and a blessing on British towns

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Scrapping the NI protocol is just the start. Johnson’s trade wars are Trumpism in action

Brexit has left Britain out on a limb. Yet the PM seems hellbent on alienating our trading partners to boost his own position, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Second homes can be a blight and a blessing on British towns. We need the right balance

Since childhood I have lived some of the year in a Welsh valley. It is possible to become a part of the local community, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Whenever Johnson has a problem, he calls Zelenskiy – and the bill is rapidly mounting

Each domestic disaster is followed by a call pledging more aid to Kyiv – it’s the most expensive therapy session in history, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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