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Here is a collection of 20 of the more outrageous statements by Israeli lawmakers or public figures since 7 October 2023

A new cadre of agit-prop campaigners has been cleaning the London underground, but there is more to the political stunt than meets the eye, says academic philosopher and writer Tom Whyman

Farage’s party could win 42% of Commons seats with only 26% of the vote. That’s not the way civilised countries do democracy, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward

From cabinet members to the British public, there is an outcry about these benefits cuts. Why is the government always so poor at reading the room? asks Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Friedrich Merz is unwisely trying to revive the discredited postwar ‘guest worker’ programme, say journalists and authors Chris Reiter and Will Wilkes

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Prior to putting before parliament its plans to cut disability and sickness-related benefits, the government must first complete essential groundwork that ought to have been done already – namely, consulting with those at the sharp end of the change: people with disabilities

Editorial: The government’s reforms were too fierce. The scale of the backbench rebellion was unusually large. Starmer’s team should have seen what was coming

Editorial: Ministers promise a new economic direction, backing industry and clean energy, but old habits and powerful interests still shape the outcome

With hawks on one side and doves on the other, we ignore the obvious fact that engagement is the best defence against conflict, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

One of the perils of being a PM is all the foreign junkets … the Nato meetings, the G7 get-togethers, the one-to-ones with Donald Trump. It’s part of the job of course, but it can present the incumbent with some awful dilemmas: which would you rather…attend a glamorous summit about…

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