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Alison Phillips

The Guardian

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Forget Stalin and Trotsky, Animal Farm is a play for our times. Pringles anyone?

15.02.2025 20

The Guardian

Alison Phillips

Gen Z is in thrall to TikTok’s Pied Piper of populism. We must fight to break the spell

02.02.2025 30

The Guardian

Alison Phillips

As resolutions go, Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘nothing in moderation’ is a stinker

11.01.2025 40

The Guardian

Alison Phillips

Friend with benefits? Ask Prince Andrew

Here’s a festive quiz for all the family. Is Prince Andrew: a) Thicker than a fig pudding? b) Greedier than Scrooge? c) More puffed-up than grandad...

14.12.2024 10

The Guardian

Alison Phillips

In a gun-slinging, dick-swinging Trump vibe, it’s small wonder Die Hard appeals

Donald Trump’s appointments to his top team continue, as Rishi Sunak would have said, “at pace”. There’s a vaccine denier in at health, a...

16.11.2024 3

The Guardian

Alison Phillips

Rachel Reeves’ budget is like a long car journey, without a Fruit-tella in sight

And still there’s another 10 days to go. After 15 bumpy weeks, will this budget ever come? The nation remains in the back of chancellor Rachel...

19.10.2024 10

The Guardian

Alison Phillips

Childish it may be, but ‘two-tier Keir’ chant chimes with the disenchanted

If only his parents could have foreseen it. Naming the future Labour leader and prime minister after Keir Hardie once seemed wonderfully...

21.09.2024 2

The Guardian

Alison Phillips