Gordon Rayner
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Associate Editor of The Daily Telegraph and long-suffering Newcastle United fan. All views my own.
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Joined March 2009
Being able to have a conversation about politics with someone who has the opposite viewpoint to you and not falling out with each other is one of the things that makes Britain great.
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Ash Sarkar: I underestimated Nigel Farage, Reform is outflanking Labour
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The Left-wing journalist and founder of Novara Media on her dissatisfaction with Starmer and how Corbyn’s new party could pose him problems
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Chris Philp: ‘I had a knife pulled on me in Calais migrant jungle’, as Channel crossings hit 50,000
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The shadow home secretary said he and his team had to hurriedly leave the camp after someone brandished a machete
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Are Trump and Putin about to carve up Europe when they meet in Alaska to discuss the Ukraine war?
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The US president has said “there will be some land swapping” ahead of a meeting with his Russian counterpart – without President Zelensky
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If Bridget Phillipson spends too long listening to the unions, we are in danger of sliding back down the league tables and sending children out into the world without a proper grasp of reading and maths.
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But while most teachers have embraced the return to teaching methods that work, the unions are still wedded to the ideology that let children down so badly (like "child centred" learning where they effectively have to teach themselves rather than being taught).
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Sir Nick Gibb, the former schools minister, explained to me how "progressive" teaching ideology under Labour had failed a generation of children before the Tories returned to teaching methods that actually worked (like phonics) and Britain climbed the international league tables.
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Why Labour’s two-tier education system is failing working class pupils
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Plus, how the man who got XL bully dogs banned is trying to rewire the British state
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Gordon Brown’s intervention shows Rachel Reeves is out of ideas
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An ex-PM touting novel proposals reminds voters how few the Chancellor has of her own
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He was branded Islamophobic for pointing out the two tier justice system that many believe exists today, yet this is a man who has spoken up for Uyghur Muslims in the past and written to an MP to help asylum seekers from a Muslim country.
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Simon Pearson believes he would still be in a job if he had made a comment that had offended Christians. Instead, he has lost his career over a personally held view he expressed in a private Facebook group which had nothing to do with his employer.
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I was persecuted for being a Christian, says teacher sacked over Lucy Connolly comments
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Simon Pearson vows to clear his name after being ‘silenced’ for challenging ‘two-tier policing’
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Vast majority of ‘kill list’ Afghans’ asylum claims were bogus
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Sources reveal as few as one in 16 people identified in data breach had genuine claims for resettlement
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Chris Smith: ‘I disagreed with many things Kathleen Stock said, but she had a right to say them’
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As he runs to be chancellor of the University of Cambridge, the man who was Britain’s first openly gay MP shares his views on free speech
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The plot against Morgan McSweeney
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As the PM battles to avert his first Commons defeat, many are pointing the finger of blame at his chief of staff – and his Chancellor
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