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PLUMMETING IN
THE POLLS: Keir
Starmer’s popularity
ratings have taken a
battering
MARY CONWAY relishes two matchless performers and a masterclass in tightly focused wordplay
Research reveals stress kills three times the number of people than physical accidents at work
BRITAIN entered 2025 amid a welter of blizzards, flooding and abandoned public celebrations across the country. And we hadn’t even begun to talk about the government.
It seems remarkable that Labour should enter the new year already having nosedived in the opinion polls. But we need to separate the self-inflicted injuries from the structural problems the government faces.
Everyone knew Labour’s 2024 landslide election victory was mainly a rejection of the corruption and greed after 14 years of self-serving Tory governance. Everyone knew that years of repair would have to follow. Everyone knew that a more inclusive politics would take time.
ALAN SIMPSON warns of a dystopian crossroads where Trump’s wrecking ball meets AI-driven alienation, and argues only a Green New Deal can repair our fractured society before techno-feudalism consumes us all
