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Our politics is collapsing into a shop window of spin.

Figures in power seize single lines from reports, cut them into social-media-sized slogans, and use them to paper over enormous choices — choices about pensions, health care, housing and war.

The Whip Line exists to pull those scraps apart and show the wiring beneath.

From August 2025, Yr Obdt Srvt collected eight articles that do three things at once: expose the spin, document the human damage, and outline the alternatives the mainstream refuses to discuss.

Inside this issue you’ll find:

• Forensic reporting on the IMF’s Article IV review and how it was weaponised;
• A clear-eyed analysis of Labour’s about-face on recognising Palestine;
• An urgent piece from Israel’s own human-rights groups; and
• Investigations into the government’s treatment of disabled people, asylum claimants, and the communities that are losing their pubs.

Why a pamphlet? Because some stories need a permanent record.

Newspapers report; pamphlets preserve.

A pamphlet sits on a shelf, gets passed around, and can be consulted months later when the spin has faded.

It lets us do what daily headlines cannot: connect the dots.

I’ll be launching the pamphlet on Saturday – September 20.

Over the coming week I’ll publish previews of the pamphlet so you can decide whether you want the full collection.

If you care about the facts rather than a polished narrative, this is for you.

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