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2025: The Year We Got Used To It
A final long read for 2025, charting how we got used to cruelty, incompetence and farce - and how 2026 will need us all to be much noisier.
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Gay Christmas, On-Call Rotas, and Other Festive Traditions
A Christmas Eve note, with thanks and minimal Brussel sprouts.
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Reform UK Doesn’t Just Have a Racism Problem - It Has a Racism Infrastructure
Why focusing on Farage’s past misses how racism is incentivised, normalised and repeatedly rewarded in the present
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Won’t Somebody Please Think of Belgravia?
How a tiny corner of the housing market became a national melodrama. Again.
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The Violence Isn’t Imported. It’s Domestic.
Kemi Badenoch’s attempt to blame violence against women on migrants doesn’t just collapse under scrutiny - it actively distracts us from where the harm…
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Six Months In: A State of the Bear Update
An end-of-year thank you to the people who made this possible
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Debunking Benefit 4: The £1 Billion We “Saved” by Walking Away from Environmental Power
Why celebrating the absence of a fee misses the far bigger cost of stepping outside Europe’s environmental framework.
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Brexit: How We Found Ourselves Outside the Tent, Getting Pissed On
From a $5bn lawsuit against the BBC to a stalled £31bn tech deal, this is what “going it alone” looks like when your biggest ally starts turning the…
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Why the UK Is So Weird About Inheritance Tax
A DINKWAC’s view of a national panic, imagined confiscations, and the uncomfortable truth about wealth, fear and being dead.
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Saturday Long Read: The NHS is Collapsing and Labour is Running out of Excuses
A system shaved to the bone, a winter crisis already unfolding, and a government furious because the arithmetic no longer works.
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Debunking Benefit 3: The Multiverse Where Britain Randomly Volunteers to Underwrite the EU
A benefit built entirely out of counterfactual smoke, time slippage and the UK mysteriously becoming fiscally adventurous for the first time in history.
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Debunking Benefit 2: Why Keeping 100% of Not-Very-Much Isn’t a Benefit
In which a revenue simulation becomes a miracle, context vanishes, and Brexit gets another imaginary dividend.
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