Theresa May began her election campaign 18 points ahead of Labour. By polling day, this lead was nearly overturned.

Pollster Peter Kellner gives a word of warning to those who think a Labour landslide is now certain:
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Today is World Bicycle Day. Back in 2020, as COVID was changing our transport needs, Clara Hernanz Lizarraga asked whether London was finally serving its cyclists.

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hello! going to be part of Prospect's political experts panel (!) for the rest of the election, coming to you a few times a week with some thoughts on what's going on - first issue is here, on what's not being talked about but should be: prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/elect…

Over the next five weeks, I’m going to be on Prospect’s election panel - sharing my thoughts on the key issues of the campaign alongside a group of ten other writers. Do follow along and watch me become more and more unhinged as the month goes on.

In the run-up to the election, Prospect is launching our election panel of 11 writers from across the political spectrum. To begin, we asked them what politicians should be talking about—but aren't: prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/elect…

A word of warning to those who think a Labour landslide is now certain. The word, or more accurately number, is “2017”. Theresa May almost squandered a similarly sized lead, writes pollster Peter Kellner.
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“Palestinians are having to address the painful reality that the ethnic cleansing of their historic homeland will be televised, and the international community will not meaningfully mobilise to stop it”, writes Dana El Kurd.
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Today is World Bicycle Day. In December, Sarah Collins reflected on riding with her dad’s middle aged mates.
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“You have to ask: is there going to be a queue of whiter-than-white companies willing to sponsor Hay in future, thereby making themselves targets? Or will they cut costs, or bump up their ticket prices so that only elites can attend?” prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/66545/…

Nelson Mandela’s old party has lost its majority for the first time since the advent of full democracy in South Africa. It will now need to initiate coalition talks.

Prior to polling day, Peter Fabricius sketched out the possible coalitions. (From the archive)
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Today is the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death. In 2022, we published this reflection from Thomas Marks on his drawings. “They are the ordinary, improvised digressions of an extraordinary writer.”

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With Kemi Badenoch back in the news, it’s worth revisiting Matthew d'Ancona’s piece from December on whether she can succeed Sunak as Conservative leader.

“Badenoch is described as ‘soft right’—though the softness is relative.”
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Keir Starmer will be the first ex-senior civil servant to become prime minister since Harold Wilson. Can he tame the bureaucratic machine?

Sam Freedman, who saw firsthand the Cameron government’s transition to power, writes on the challenge awaiting Labour.
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Today is all about defence for Labour. Both the opposition and the Tories have committed to raising defence spending to 2.5% of GDP. But to what ends? For
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Is the UK still Europe’s pre-eminent military power? Not based on it’s actual record.

Following Keir Starmer’s defence speech today, we've published Malcolm Chalmers’s essay on Britain’s defence capability from our upcoming issue.
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Dominic Cummings’ foray into short-form video “has the look of a video that a backpacker might send home to his family to update them on his long recovery from malaria”, writes Imogen West-Knights.
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Trolling. Death threats. Doxing...

Index on Censorship CEO Jemimah Steinfeld speaks to Chinese dissidents, including Hong Kong activist Simon Cheng, who paint an alarming picture of the CCP using every tool in its arsenal to silence them.
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“Against the backdrop of a resurgent Trump and ascendant European far-right, the use of what look like ‘divide and rule’ tactics by purportedly progressive politicians are all the more worrying”, writes Em Hilton #SaveMasaferYatta 🔥✡️💇🏼‍♀️, UK director of Diaspora Alliance.
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