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August 2026

‘Workin’ 9 to 5’
Your Weekend Wire from Best for Britain
 • Eliza Snider and Joshua Edwicker
Cakes, customers and confidence: What my first job taught me
“It was my first real taste of adulthood, of being a person beyond a classroom, family or group of friends.”
 • Jessica Frank-Keyes
As wildfires menace harvests, let’s not reheat arguments about British exceptionalism
By James Coldwell
 • Best for Britain
Summertime sadness
Your Weekend Wire by Eliza Snider and Joshua Edwicker
 • Eliza Snider and Joshua Edwicker
Burnham’s first month: Is the honeymoon ending - and how could Labour make a difference?
“The riskiest thing any government can do is be cautious. That is what did for Keir.”
 • Toby Helm
A Nation At Home
We used to laugh at the same joke, in the same week. Now we scroll alone. That is a political choice, not a fact of life
 • Naomi Smith
Nigel Farage wants us to think Clacton is a victory. Here’s why it’s not.
"Farage may have fought the election on his turf - but in no sense on his terms."
 • Cary Mitchell
Out for the count
Your Weekend Wire by Eliza Snider and Joshua Edwicker
 • Eliza Snider and Joshua Edwicker
Three A-levels, one degree - and £53,000 of debt
Students have been shouting for years about the unfairness of student loans. Will Andy Burnham's government listen?
 • Julia Meadon
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