Alan Rusbridger
Editor at Prospect Magazine
Editor @Prospect_uk. @OversightBoard.Ex-EIC, @Guardian. https://t.co/2gU8YUIAH6. Speaking: [email protected]. migrating to @arusbridger.bsky.social
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2 weeks ago |
independent.co.uk | Alan Rusbridger
CommentThe messy family saga of the Marquess of Ailesbury, currently playing out like Eastenders written by PG Wodehouse, shows that it’s time for the 92 hereditary peers still sitting in the House of Lords to finally go, writes Alan RusbridgerIn the House of Lords they are still busy debating a Bill that will decide whether 92 assorted dukes, earls, viscounts and hereditary barons should continue to have a role in making laws for the rest of us.
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3 weeks ago |
independent.co.uk | Alan Rusbridger
CommentThe common wisdom is we are living in an age of polarity, and parties like Reform benefit from voters pushed to the extremes. But isn’t the truth that most of us are somewhere in the neglected middle on the big issues of the day, asks Alan RusbridgerHow many people, I wonder, seriously think that Keir Starmer has much in common with Enoch Powell? It’s true that whoever came up with the phrase “island of strangers” was, at best, naive.
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4 weeks ago |
independent.co.uk | Alan Rusbridger
The Independent's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn commission. commentIn America, Trump has put his most loyal cronies in charge of the security and intelligence apparatus.
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1 month ago |
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Tom Clark |Alan Rusbridger
Could it happen here? Could a populist leader be elected in the United Kingdom and sweep away institutions, norms and accountability in the way Donald Trump has behaved in his first 100 days as president? Are there checks and balances to prevent a wholesale assault of the sort that Trump, Musk and Vance have mounted in the United States? Or have we complacently relied on an unwritten constitution and “good chap theory” to muddle through?
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1 month ago |
independent.co.uk | Alan Rusbridger
The Independent's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn commission. commentThe days when people could get away with outright climate change denial are mostly behind us, writes Alan Rusbridger. But using net zero as the latest front in the culture wars is just as badI am trying to imagine Kemi Badenoch in June 1940. “We shall not yet fight on the beaches,” she might have said.
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