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Writer & Visiting Fellow @ChathamHouse. Former Special Adviser @FCDOGovUK and @MOJGovUK. Observations: benjudah0.substack.com
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Dirty money should be Burnham’s fight

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By Ben Judah
| Arguably Newsletter
(Mykhalio Pavlenko/Shutterstock) I’m not alone in having served in Keir Starmer’s government and regretted watching our progressive agenda disappear. Working for Labour in opposition, I helped prepare an ambitious anti-corruption agenda for the then shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, to take into office. The idea was simple. For a Labour government to succeed, every department had to show people at home how it was fighting for them.
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Why we can’t outrun the Neanderthals Their phantoms will forever haunt us

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By Ben Judah
| UnHerd Verified
An artist's rendition of a Neanderthal woman. (Joe McNally/Getty) ArcheologyHistoryNeanderthal Prefer us on Google To become a father is to be plunged into a world of stories. Dragons, tigers, talking bears — some of them half-remembered, from when they were read to me — every night before bedtime. No parent needs an anthropologist to tell them there is something primordial about putting your child to sleep. But could there be something more?
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How Trump cost Starmer his premiership

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By Ben Judah
| Arguably Newsletter
Today on Arguably, Ben Judah, who was a Foreign Office special adviser from 2024-25, writes on the lessons for the next prime minister from Donald Trump’s treatment of Keir Starmer. (Joshua Sukoff/Shutterstock) We’ve heard a lot about what Keir Starmer got wrong. What we’ve heard less often is that he simply got unlucky. I am firmly of the belief that Donald Trump’s election as US president 19 months ago played a major role in derailing his premiership.
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