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Contempt for rules is shaking the foundations of British democracy

With its voter ID ruse and a bid to capture the civil service, the government is emulating US Republicans’ winner-takes-all populism, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Antisocial: how putting away my phone helped me recover from a heart attack

After being forced to quit social media, political journalist Rafael Behr was able to see its corrosive influence clearly. How can we repair the damage caused by a system that plays on our worst impulses?

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Reality is Sunak’s enemy in this endless Tory campaign to defy political gravity

The PM posed as the leader who would finally tackle the serious issues. Now he is trying to stay in power by denying they exist, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Sunak’s wealth isn’t an image problem for voters – except when he refuses to talk about it

Authenticity, not net worth, is the issue when a millionaire prime minister tries too hard to be normal, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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The Good Friday agreement showed how decent British politics can be – but Sunak and Starmer have other plans

Trivia, historical amnesia and dirty tricks have become the new norm. Neither party leader has the courage to buck that trend, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Labour isn’t focused only on ‘hero voters’

Letters: James Valentine and Dr Mark Wilcox respond to Rafael Behr’s analysis of the party’s election strategy

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Red wall Brexiters will be the ‘hero voters’ of the next election. The rest of us are just walk-on players

British politics is bent out of shape to accommodate a narrow set of views clustered to one side of a partisan divide, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Western democracy is weaker in this new cold war than it was in the first one

For democrats, a stubborn economic malaise is more existentially threatening than any example set in Moscow or Beijing, says Rafael Behr

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Cruel Tory migration bill will erode basic right to seek asylum

Letters: The impact the policy will have across the world can’t be ignored, says Oliver Lough. Plus letters from Derrick Joad, Nigel Griffin and David Duell

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‘Stop the boats’ shows how Britain is really being governed: by Tory campaign leaflet

Sunak and Braverman’s cruel migration policy is a stunt to win over voters – but then gimmicks are all they have left to offer, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Putin’s ‘holy war’ is terrorising Ukraine – and Russian dissenters. All they ask is that we don’t forget them

They know our first sympathy must be with Ukraine, as is theirs. But they need our support in this time of repression, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Brexit will endure after Sunak’s deal, but Brexitism is dying and Johnsonism may be dead

Better relations could lead to a reset and talks about a raft of key issues, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Joe Biden has heralded a new age of democracy in Kyiv. Sunak’s Tories are unfit for it

The US president voiced sentiments at odds with our illiberal government. His call for a rules-based order bathes them in the harshest light, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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After Brexit, Britain’s competitors are running rings around us. Sunak’s not even at the races

This reshuffle will make little difference: we’re going nowhere as the PM leads us further down an economic dead end, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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The Tories now face a choice: lose office with honour or burn everything in sight

Opposition is a state of mind – and Rishi Sunak’s party is already a long way down the road, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Sunak, the passive PM, had the chance to tackle the scourge of long Boris Johnson – and shirked it

The prime minister won’t act decisively to finish the career of the great bloviator, and that says much about his lack of grip, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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The Brexiters are getting their bonfire of EU law – and democracy will lie in the ashes

Sunak’s fast-tracking of the retained EU law bill shows that the road away from Europe is one-way, and paved to the lowest possible standard, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Winter is here, the Tories are out of control and Sunak is running out of options

The prime minister faces a rebellious party and a country struggling to make ends meet – and he can’t satisfy both, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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What would politics look like if Starmer’s plan was working? Like it does now

His own party remains cautious, but Tories are pretty sure he is heading for No 10, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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The truth that Rishi Sunak dare not speak: Britain still needs the EU

Rumours of a Swiss-style deal have put Brexit back on the agenda, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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How Brexit Britain went awol in the struggle to defend liberal democracy

Too many Tories, including Rishi Sunak, were enjoying the Eurosceptic dance. They didn’t stop to think who was paying the piper, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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The Tories are ungovernable, and Rishi Sunak won’t bring them to heel

Brexit created a profound crisis in Conservatism – one that it is beyond the abilities of any caretaker prime minister to solve, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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The Tory leadership race is not just a political battle – it’s religious warfare

The party has reached a stage where purity of faith is valued over sound judgment or evidence, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Liz Truss is the last stop on a long Tory journey away from grownup government

Buffoonery has been no bar to climbing the Tory party hierarchy – and this mess is the inevitable result, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Populist rhetoric without the popularity – Truss’s guaranteed recipe for failure

At least Brexit had an electoral mandate. The PM’s project of economic self-harm is neither politically nor morally feasible, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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