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“There are two types of politician,” Tony Blair observed in 2012. “Reality creators and reality managers.” While postwar politics was generally a matter of steady management,…

Just over a year after Keir Starmer entered Downing Street, his political survival already looks uncertain. Perennially indecisive, unpopular with the public and unable to pass…

On the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver delved into the “Make America healthy again” (Maha) movement, a “big tent” group that’s “not just…

John Oliver took a hard look at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) on the latest Last Week Tonight, as more and more videos of Ice raids…

John Oliver opened his latest episode of Last Week Tonight with a look at the dire famine in Gaza, which Israeli leaders and American supporters continue…

After an extended summer holiday, John Oliver returned to his desk at Last Week Tonight to dissect US law enforcement’s overreliance on faulty and unregulated gang…

Few public brands have ever garnered as much unbridled popular affection as the London underground. From the moment that architect Leslie Green unleashed his first station…

John Oliver covered the dangers of AI on his weekly HBO show, calling it “worryingly corrosive” for society.On Last Week Tonight, Oliver said that the “spread…

John Oliver opened the first Last Week Tonight since protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) erupted in Los Angeles, prompting Donald Trump to send in…

The celebrity chef and campaigner Jamie Oliver has said he is “disgusted” by his native county of Essex for not formally recognising dyslexia as a special…