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Aditya ChakraborttyThe Guardian |
Later today, a man who has recently turned 32 will be hauled in front of a Manhattan judge. Already convicted of huge fraud, he knows he’s going to...
This year is only eight weeks old, yet we can already write a brief history of the near future. In Coventry, victims of sexual violence will no longer...
How does a great institution die? In the same two stages as Hemingway believed people went bankrupt: gradually, then suddenly. Entire decades may pass...
Rishi Sunak is in thrall to just two syllables: small boats. Plunging wages, extortionate heating bills, collapsing public services – such trivia...
“You talkin’ to me?” One of the most famous speeches of the past half-century is delivered with only a mirror for an audience. Alone in his...
In this season of quizzing, here’s a real head-scratcher. Can you name the big British employer that punished staff for boycotting a small fraction...
Two minutes before the hour, and only a handful of friends had turned up. The student organisers looked at each other in dismay. Would their protest,...
The bottom line from that autumn statement? Prepare for a general election in the spring. Yes, the Tories lag far behind in the polls; and sure, Rishi...
The hall is shrouded in blackness, the audience ensconced in plush red seats. All heads are turned to the bright lights on stage for that annual...
As a million Britons marched through London in 2003 against war with Iraq, William Rees-Mogg gazed on from outside the Athenaeum Club in Pall Mall. In...
T o understand how Keir Starmer’s team sees class, it helps to know a story. It’s told by his head of strategy, Deborah Mattinson, about a series...