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5 days ago | 
japantimes.co.jp | Martin Ivens
Britain and Europe have become "a hotbed of digital censorship, mass migration, restrictions on religious freedom,” according to Samuel Samson, a senior adviser to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. His punchy boss further threatens to bar European visitors to the U.S. for "censoring” Americans online. Vice President JD Vance also condemned European "backsliding” on basic democratic values in a speech that outraged his audience at the Munich Security Conference last autumn.
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5 days ago | 
qoshe.com | Martin Ivens
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1 week ago | 
bloomberg.com | Martin Ivens
French philosopher Voltaire was a champion of free speech; Europe and the UK need to be wary of drifting toward censorship. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- veryone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference.”This column reflects the personal views of the author and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners. Martin Ivens is the editor of the Times Literary Supplement.
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1 week ago | 
the-tls.co.uk | Martin Ivens
“The dollar plays a similar role to that of the English language in global commerce”, writes Edward Chancellor in his lead review of three books devoted to American financial supremacy. “Both enjoy network effects: the more they are used, the more others are obliged to use them.”
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2 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Martin Ivens
Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves at Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- When does a tactical retreat become a rout? Keir Starmer performed his biggest U-turn in government yet on Thursday by promising to reinstate some pensioners’ winter fuel allowance (WFA), which he cut last July.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Martin Ivens
When does a tactical retreat become a rout? Keir Starmer performed his biggest U-turn in government yet on Thursday by promising to reinstate some pensioners’ winter fuel allowance (WFA), which he cut last July. The prime minister caved in after muttering from disaffected Labour backbench MPs became a roar - and the measure had become totemic of much that the voters dislike about a government, now languishing in the opinion polls behind the populist Reform UK party.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Martin Ivens
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2 weeks ago | 
the-tls.co.uk | Martin Ivens
Acclaimed by Anthony Burgess as “the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century”, Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce gets the biographical treatment from Zachary Leader, the author of biographies of Kingsley Amis and Saul Bellow.
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3 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Martin Ivens
There’s not a lot for Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves to smile about these days. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Labour’s vision for Britain “is a work in progress.” That isn’t the view of some hostile Tory commentator but of Claire Reynolds, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s political director, no less, and wife of Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds.
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3 weeks ago | 
taipeitimes.com | Martin Ivens
By Martin Ivens / Bloomberg Opinion British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has 10 compelling reasons to take voter anxiety about immigration deadly seriously: Weekend opinion polls show Reform UK, the insurgent anti-migration party, enjoys an unprecedented 10-point lead over his Labour Party — and that is 10 months after Starmer’s landslide election victory. Immigration has become the No. 1 issue in the polls.
