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LETTERS

“Is Britain having a collective nervous breakdown?” asks Camilla Cavendish in the Financial Times. Almost two-thirds of voters think we are heading in the wrong direction, while our government has “go

→ Last Sunday I did a talk at the Anteros Arts Foundation, an art gallery and charity in Norwich. It was a fundraiser for Anteros, as I have had a studio there and love what they do. The story I offer

“All government leaders know what to do. They just don’t know how to get re-elected if they do it.” Jean-Claude Juncker, the former president of the European Commission, said little of note in his pol

Notes on a scandal How many more BBC scandals will there have to be before the government of the day steps in and sorts it out? The Trump speech fiasco is only the latest. In just the last 12 months o

Controversy of the week The Starmer drama “Keir ...