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Rishi Sunak has surrounded himself with yes-men. What he really needs is a Willie

As Margaret Thatcher knew, a PM’s success depends on wise advice – and Sunak should look to his backbenches to find it, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Here’s the best way for Britain to solve the migrant crisis: give them work visas

The UK needs new workers and people want to come here. The real problem is populist politics, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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M&S is a shining example of how not to treat the high street – or the planet

The retailer wants to knock down and rebuild its flagship store, or leave. It should do the latter, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Rishi Sunak has won. Now the Tories can restore stability and leave Johnson behind

The parliamentary party must unite around the new prime minister to end the fiasco of the past six years, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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After Truss, it’s the club v the mob – the Tories’ last chance before Britain demands an election

The Conservatives know the people’s verdict would be devastating. But they can’t be allowed to carry on in a state of perpetual chaos, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Electing a new leader would be risky – but these are desperate times for the Tories

Getting rid of Truss may be the only way for Conservative MPs to save their skins, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Only proper online regulation can stop poisonous conspiracists like Alex Jones

A US court has imposed a huge fine for lies he spread about a school shooting. But he will continue to sow mayhem, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Liz Truss says she ‘gets it’ – but how many more U-turns can she stomach?

A disastrous conference may force the prime minister to return to the moderate Toryism she rejected, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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The best course left to the Tories is to oust Liz Truss – and install a caretaker leader

A unifier like Michael Gove could prepare the party for effective opposition, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Truss U-turned on tax cuts for the super-rich – now she can axe the rest of her disastrous budget

If the PM and Kwasi Kwarteng want to stem public fury, they must go further, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Trussonomics has been exposed as a childish absurdity. Trussopolitics is even worse

The prime minister and Kwasi Kwarteng must now eat humble pie and try to steer Britain out of the crisis they created, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Pouring cash into London to solve regional inequality? That’s trickle-down Trussonomics

The UK economy needs the rest of the country to help reverse decades of decline, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Putin’s nuclear threat shows a desperate man out of options

Using such weapons has no tactical purpose – it would only lose the Russian president support at home and abroad, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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All this pomp and splendour proves it: without our support the royals can’t survive

The public mourning for the Queen has been a PR triumph. But this shouldn’t disguise the need for reform, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Why is Liz Truss sacking top civil servants? Because she wants to suppress dissent

This is government Trump-style, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Facile, empty and cliched – Liz Truss’s first week has been a disaster

The new prime minister made promises on the campaign trail she hoped would be forgotten. She is already paying the price, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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The first thing Prime Minister Liz Truss needs to do? U-turn on everything she believes in

She’s a small-state ideologue, but all that matters is that she carries the UK through this economic crisis, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Britain’s traumatised education system needs a break – and a decent minister

After two-plus years of Covid and seven secretaries of state in the past six years, teachers and students deserve more support, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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The first task for a Prime Minister Truss: get Sunak back into cabinet

Her rival to the Tory throne would at least bring some coherence to an otherwise extraordinarily lightweight front bench, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Truss’s warmongering rhetoric is empty, antagonistic – and wildly dangerous

The potential PM’s plan to cut benefits and boost defence spending merely serves her craving for the theatre of conflict, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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England’s water industry now represents the unacceptable face of capitalism

Million-pound salaries for bosses, billions for shareholders – all while sewage is dumped in our rivers and sea, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Do you want free speech to thrive? Then it has to be regulated, now more than ever

The online safety bill in the UK is shaping up to be a censor’s nightmare, but we need to take this debate seriously, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Who knows if Truss or Sunak is right on the cost of living crisis – where are all the economists?

The profession seems to have gone AWOL, just when we could do with a bit of modelling on tax cuts v handouts, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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The west cannot dissociate itself from the conflict in Ukraine

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Simon Jenkins which argued that western countries should be ready to back away from Russia’s invasion, rather than risk provoking a global war

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In Taiwan, as in Ukraine, the west is flirting with disaster

It’s one thing to declare yourself ‘rather dead than red’, quite another to inflict that decision on the rest of us, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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