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Labour Keir Starmer needs a coherent plan for immigration The public anxiety about borders is real, and it will still exist under a Labour government. By Andrew Marr
Emmanuel Macron does not understand France A leading French thinker on the forces of a new movement that is neither left nor right. By Christophe Guilluy
Bill Gates is bad for humanity By “maximising” lives, the billionaire philanthropist is making ours worse. By Quinn Slobodian
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The Weekend Report What are private schools really selling? They no longer have a stranglehold on Oxbridge and would lose tax breaks under Labour. Can elite education survive? By Melissa Denes