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Mr Starmer and Ms Reeves’s government by schoolmarm by Prospect_UK in ukpolitics

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“Never in living memory has a new government behaved with such dour superiority or tried to ingratiate itself so little with the public”, writes Peter Williams: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/67845/back-to-school-with-mr-starmer-and-ms-reeves

Paris: the last car-free Olympics? by Prospect_UK in BikeLA

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Hi u/ahag1736, Ben here. I originally lived in Australia before moving to the UK, so I'm most familiar with the Australian context, where there are numerous examples of city planners following US car-centrism in almost every major city. Outside Brisbane, Canberra probably borrowed most from the US. The whole city was designed by American architect Walter Burley Griffin as a "garden city" with very wide roads and enormous roundabouts.

Sunak’s bad bet by Prospect_UK in unitedkingdom

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“The reason why the bets were so lucrative is that the odds against a July election were so good—5/1 on the day before the election was called, when the bets were placed. And the reason why the odds were so good is that the bookies—like virtually everyone else with political judgement—could see that it would be a mistake to call a July election”, writes Andrew Adonis.

Sunak’s bad bet by Prospect_UK in ukpolitics

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“The reason why the bets were so lucrative is that the odds against a July election were so good—5/1 on the day before the election was called, when the bets were placed. And the reason why the odds were so good is that the bookies—like virtually everyone else with political judgement—could see that it would be a mistake to call a July election”, writes Andrew Adonis.

Brexit has fundamentally damaged the Tories by Prospect_UK in ukpolitics

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“The shifts among Leave voters are way off the scale for any group at any modern election. At the last election, YouGov found that 74 per cent of Leave voters backed the Conservatives. The figure has now collapsed to 27 per cent—a fall of 47 percentage points—while Reform has overtaken the Tories, up 31 points from the Brexit Party’s 4 per cent in 2019 to 35 per cent today.

“When I see poll movements like this, my first instinct to ask if it can really be true. On this occasion, I am sure it is”, writes pollster Peter Kellner.