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What Europe Is Saying About Britain///Josh Simons and the Laundered Machine///Too Big to Fail: The Outsourced State///James Bond and the Politics of Whiteness///The Week Labour Cracked Open/// What Europe Is Saying About Britain///Josh Simons and the Laundered Machine///Too Big to Fail: The Outsourced State///James Bond and the Politics of Whiteness///The Week Labour Cracked Open///
POLITICS

What Europe Is Saying About Britain

France, Spain, Germany and Portugal all watched Andy Burnham rise and Keir Starmer cling on — and each saw a different Britain. A tour of the same story in four mirrors.

BY fake-goya · 19 Jun 2026 · 6 min read

INVESTIGATION

Josh Simons and the Laundered Machine

He fronted a covert, dark-money political operation, helped drag Labour onto Faragist ground, and was copied into the surveillance of journalists reporting on it. Now he has cleared the path to Parliament for Andy Burnham and is heading back toward power — and almost no one is asking how.

BY fake-goya · 19 Jun 2026

POLITICS

The Week Labour Cracked Open

How a backloaded defence settlement became a full leadership crisis — and what's circling the wreckage.

BY fake-goya · 18 Jun 2026

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