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Thursday, September 26th, 2019
John Harris and John Domokos dive once again into what rumbles beneath the Brexit crisis. In London, a remain-supporting courier leads a fight for basic rights and in leave-voting Derbyshire, ex-miners yearn for a past of solidarity and respect – while at the Labour party conference, it’s all going off. Warning: this video contains signs of hope
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Britain’s common ground is lost. But there are glimmers of hope we can find it | John Harris
Monday, September 23rd, 2019
Media-fuelled Brexit divisions have created a culture of mutual loathing. Grassroots initiatives can help bring us together
“I’ve given up watching the news,” said the man in the other room. “It’s all lies.”
We were both in a hi-fi shop in Bath – me immersed in an arcane conversation about amplifiers, while he asked for help with his internet-enabled flatscreen television. He was sixtysomething, with the look of someone being endlessly annoyed by the world, or what he saw of it. These days, he said, all his information about current affairs came from online videos. What, I wondered, was he watching? Claims of faked bombings in Syria? False warnings about the dangers of vaccines? Or labyrinthine theories about the global cabal intent on stopping Brexit?
Related: TV streaming bonanza looms for UK – but can you afford it?
Related: Could language be the key to detecting fake news? | David Shariatmadari
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Cameron may have fought Brexit. But it was his policies that made it happen | John Harris
Monday, September 16th, 2019
Though he now styles himself as the failed pioneer of a softer politics, he can’t escape responsibility for austerity
Here he comes, wielding the delayed memoirs that will finally go on sale on Thursday, about to star in the two-part BBC documentary that premieres the same day, and committed to the bare minimum of public appearances. In the midst of such a huge national mess, David Cameron seems to be fulfilling a role that will be familiar to any devotee of country music or TV soap opera: that of the estranged, emotionally constipated husband, who left behind the domestic carnage he created and then hesitantly returned, lost as to what to say but desperate to somehow make amends.
Related: David Cameron’s self-indulgent sorrow doesn’t excuse his cowardice | Will Hutton
Brexit is partly the fault of irresponsible politicians who were not actually Brexiters
Related: David Cameron and the art of blaming other people | David Mitchell
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Anywhere but Westminster | ’All this has to stop’: our real Brexit crisis – video
Wednesday, September 11th, 2019
Away from the drama in London, what’s actually going on? In Wigan, Bury, Manchester, Nuneaton and Macclesfield, John Harris and John Domokos find confusion and weariness about Brexit and fury at the so-called coup – as well as homelessness, hunger and the deep roots of the UK’s current meltdown in what Anywhere but Westminster began chronicling 10 long years ago
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Could Boris Johnson’s explosive election strategy work?
Wednesday, September 11th, 2019
Anushka Asthana hears from the Guardian’s John Harris on how the chaos in Westminster looks to people in towns around the UK. Also today: Gaby Hinsliff on accusations of cronyism in Theresa May’s honours list
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Having lost his majority in parliament, Boris Johnson has been forced into a corner. He will be compelled by law to seek a Brexit extension from the EU unless a deal can be agreed before the end of October – and parliament has denied him the chance to hold an election before the Halloween deadline. It’s been a rocky time in Westminster for the new prime minister, but opinion polls show his bedraggled Conservative party extending its lead over Labour. So what’s going on?
The Guardian columnist John Harris joins Anushka Asthana to discuss how the chaos in Westminster looks from towns around the UK. His video series Anywhere But Westminster is now in its 10th year as he travels the country taking the political temperature. He says disillusionment with Westminster politics has only grown and a ‘people versus parliament’ election as framed by Downing Street could well resonate.
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