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Swing when you’re winning What are the biggest UK by-election swings? — The 1983 Bermondsey by-election saw a 11,756 Labour…
Letters: Biden is alienating Britain
Joe Shmoe Sir: Your piece ‘Not so special’ (Leading article, 8 July) was right. Joe Biden doesn’t like us and…
2611: On-board entertainment
Unclued lights were world CHESS champions. Current champion DING was to be highlighted. First prize Gail Petrie, Brean, Somerset Runners-up…
Coutts must be held to account over Nigel Farage
When Nigel Farage said Coutts had closed his bank account and claimed political victimisation, many thought he was making it…
Rishi Sunak is right about illegal migration
The Illegal Migration Bill is having a distorting effect on the Tory party. It has put Theresa May and Iain…
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Mx Universe A transgender woman was named ‘Miss Netherlands’, and will now compete in the Miss Universe contest. British TV…
Biden shouldn’t turn his back on Britain
You can tell a lot about a president’s politics by his foreign visits. Joe Biden’s decision to skip King Charles’s…
Parents have a right to know what’s in sex education classes
Rishi Sunak tends to shy away from social issues so it has been left to a backbencher, Miriam Cates, to…
2608: Support – solution
Reading the title as ‘backup’, unclued answers VOLTE-FACE, RETREAT, SPIN, TURN, COUNTER, BACKTRACK, WITHDRAWAL, ROTATE, RETIREMENT and RECOIL had to…
Letters: In defence of teachers
Teacher trouble Sir: Rod Liddle (‘The trouble with teachers’, 24 June) is quite correct in what he says about the…
Portrait of the week: Boris locked out, mortgage misery and Titanic submarine search
Home Boris Johnson, the former prime minister, was ritually buried by the House of Commons voting by 354 to seven…
Why Europe’s shift to the right may cost the Tories
On her recent visit to Washington, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves presented herself as the perfect candidate to be the next…
Britain must not import America’s abortion culture war
British politicians tend to avoid the issue of abortion. The subject divides America bitterly, yet Britain has opted for consensus.…
