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Fri 4 Sept 2026

Today's debates

Dan Jukes in wax jacket talks to Nigel Farage in pink checked suit

Nigel Farage meeting a ‘shadowy foreign donor’? It can only be another establishment stitch-up

Marina Hyde

Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham in Manchester, 12 May 2024.

Andy Burnham presents his new government as more leftwing than Keir Starmer’s. In reality, it’s barely moved at all

Owen Jones

Migrants Attempt Channel Crossing Amid Fair Weather SpellGRAVELINES, FRANCE - JUNE 13: French Police enter the water to try and stop migrants boarding small boats that had come to collect them from further down the coastline on June 13, 2025 in Gravelines, France. Police used tear gas and pepper spray to try and disperse hundreds of migrants aiming to board several boats but were ultimately overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of people. A record number of migrants have left the northern French coastline and arrived to the UK so far this year, with figures surpassing the 15,000 mark. The UK government has vowed to crackdown on people smugglers and illegal migration, with Chancellor Rachel Reeves announcing as part of the government's spending review on Wednesday that the Border Security Command would be funded up to £280m more per year by the end of the review period in 2028-29. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Drones, teargas, riot squads: why has the UK gone to war against asylum seekers already fleeing conflict?

Diane Taylor

Former Vauxhall workers at the closed site (from left) Mohammed Hussain, Malik Mahmood, Gary Reay, Paul Geary and Gerald Shalvey, Luton, 28 August 2026.

‘Capitalism is dying’: in Luton, these former car workers have a moral tale for our times

Aditya Chakrabortty

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Young people speaking with National Careers Service advisers at the Manchester Job Show, April 2026

Britain’s schools are failing its young people – and 1m Neets are paying the price

Simon Jenkins

When does rage help us, and when does it harm us? Ukraine has taught me the answers

Charlotte Higgins

Andy Burnham leaves 10 Downing Street and looks up smilingly at rain

Unlike Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham promises us that things will get better. And we must believe they can

Polly Toynbee

Ebikes lying on ground and upright block access, with street sign behind reading Piccadilly

Badly parked ebikes in London are a menace – but other cities have shown us the solution

Agustin Guilisasti

Dozens of people by makeshift tents on the beach, a day after a violent protest during which some tents were set alight.

The Ceuta border breach was leapt on by Europe’s right. That doesn’t absolve Spain

María Ramírez

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Flowers lie in front of a portrait of the investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, during a vigil outside the law courts in Valletta, Malta, in October 2018.

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