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Every Israeli has woken up knowing the existential question this projected hung Knesset, with Arab parties as kingmakers, is asking of them: what kind of democracy is Israel? But one thing is clear. This election was a referendum on Netanyahu himself, and he seems to have lost that poll. It looks like the Bibi bloc has collapsed from a 68-seat majority in the last Knesset, to a minority this morning. Early numbers suggest most Israeli voters have rejected him and his allies. We will have to wait until Thursday for final results, and these may well prove slightly different.
Read @b_judah on the Israeli elections:
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‘Culinary contempt and embarrassment for one’s own country were prerequisites for sophistication.’
Read @TheGreedyDick on the history of posh Brits hating their own cuisine👇
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How transactivism captured therapy- a great piece by Julie Bindel!! unherd.com/2026/10/how-trans…
Britain’s middle class has long disparaged the country’s cuisine.
We must resist this culinary self-loathing, argues @TheGreedyDick 👇
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I wrote about how, if you're going to end misogyny, £15million isn't enough - but if you're not going to end (or even define) it, it's far too much unherd.com/newsroom/labours-…
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How transactivism captured therapy - must-read piece by my friend @bindelj
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According to OBR forecasts, UK net migration will reach its lowest level since 1997 this year, before rising again in the coming years.
Shea Ferguson reports 👇
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The OBR has forecast net migration to fall to 120,000 this year.
Excluding the pandemic year, it would be the lowest figure since 1997, writes Shea Ferguson 👇
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"Enthusiasts often appear to echo the grandiose liberal imperialist vision of the high Victorian age, in which Britain leads a family of...nations into the sunlit uplands of liberal democratic Christian civilisation." Me vs the Commonwealth at @unherd. unherd.com/newsroom/britain-…
The Democrats could take control of both the House and Senate in the midterms.
But they shouldn’t mistake a referendum on Trump for an endorsement of their politics, writes @mbaharaeen 👇
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I wrote, for @unherd, about the implications for children, young people and their parents, about the trans-capture of clinical psychology: unherd.com/2026/10/how-trans…
The Democrats are set for a strong showing in the midterms next week.
But will they learn the right lessons from any victory? @mbaharaeen 👇
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How long can this discordant Downing Street double act go on for? Surely the new dialectic between Burnham’s dad-socialist idealism and its conservative, Healeyite antithesis is bound to be resolved in an electoral and real budgetary synthesis before 2029?
The Prime Minister cannot spend three years bobbing along with grammable titbits of cost-of-living policy while promising a post-election new dawn. Something will have to give, and despite the repeated denials, all other signs point towards an early poll.
Burnham has restored Labour’s lead and has high personal ratings. Those will be slowly squandered as the inevitable compromises of power begin to bite, and as global stagflationary forces accelerate. Healey’s programmed cuts to Whitehall spending for the supposed year of the next election are testament to this. It would be suicidal for the Government that is promising post-neoliberal national renewal to begin a round of austerity heading into the year of a general election.
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Labour has announced a £15 million fund to tackle everyday misogyny.
The money will be wasted on progressive pet issues, argues @glosswitch 👇
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Prime Minister Carney is attempting to pull off a monumental act of historical reverse engineering — one that would see the New World returning to the shores of the Old. Finding itself in President Trump’s crosshairs, Canada is trying to pivot from being America’s dependent northern brother to Europe’s long-lost child returning home. “It is my strong personal view that the international order will be rebuilt, but it will be rebuilt out of Europe,” Carney has predicted.
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Labour has announced a £15 million anti-misogyny fund.
But ministers don’t understand the causes of discrimination against women, writes @glosswitch 👇
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The Cass Review, of 2024, was supposed to be a turning point. Young people experiencing gender distress should not simply be waved through to the operating table, said Cass. Instead, they should receive comprehensive, evidence-based mental-health support.
But what if that support comes from a profession that has given itself to trans ideology? In this thorough and damning investigation, @bindelj uncovers the rot at the heart of British clinical psychology: an affirmation approach that amounts to, as one whistleblower put it, a “trans conveyer belt”.
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Social media has led to a homogenisation of beauty standards.
Jennifer Lawrence is the latest victim, writes @kristinamurkett 👇
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This by @b_judah is very, very good
"Every Israeli has woken up knowing the existential question this projected hung Knesset, with Arab parties as kingmakers, is asking of them: what kind of democracy is Israel?"
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Jennifer Lawrence has proudly discussed her new cosmetic surgery.
But why are so many celebrities succumbing to ‘Instagram face’? @kristinamurkett 👇
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