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• My trip to Makerfield convinced me I’ve got something very wrong

  17-06-2026 19:52 via inews.co.uk
  
  There is nothing like being right. Being so certain. Feeling the kind of self assurance that makes you walk taller and command a room with your thinking. That was where I was on Monday morning.Keir Starmer had delivered one of his most assured, most prime ministerial statements of his premiership – the long awaited, and indeed longed-for, ban on social media for the under-16s.It was time to give children back their childhoods, argued the PM. And to give parents a break from hammering them.
  
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• Emily Maitlis: My trip to Makerfield convinced me I’ve got something very wrong

  17-06-2026 19:52 via inews.co.uk
  
  There is nothing like being right. Being so certain. Feeling the kind of self assurance that makes you walk taller and command a room with your thinking. That was where I was on Monday morning.Keir Starmer had delivered one of his most assured, most prime ministerial statements of his premiership – the long awaited, and indeed longed-for, ban on social media for the under-16s.It was time to give children back their childhoods, argued the PM. And to give parents a break from hammering them.
  
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• Fake patriots have a new playbook – and it’s going to destroy the UK

  17-06-2026 08:00 via inews.co.uk
  
  There are two types of patriot: the kind who fetishise flags and the kind who prioritise people. In the UK, thanks to a toxic coalition of grifters, politicians and the richest man in the world, the first kind are currently enjoying a period of unprecedented dominance over the second.It took me years to fully understand what Samuel Johnson meant when he described patriotism as “the last refuge of a scoundrel”. As a child, a love for your country comes almost as naturally as a love of
  
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