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T his autumn, more than ever, British politics is a waiting game. Waiting for the Tory and Labour party conferences. Waiting for possibly pivotal...
N ow, more than ever, complaining about the state of the country is one of the main ways that Britain talks about itself. But in all the endless...
F ifty years on, the 1973 coup in Chile still haunts politics there and far beyond. As we approach its anniversary, on 11 September, the violent...
I n Britain and far beyond, anti-environmentalists have a new favourite argument. No longer able to claim the climate crisis isn’t happening, they...
O ne of the difficulties with trying to make sense of what has happened to this country since 2010, when the Tories took office, is the absence of...
T he bigger Britain’s problems get, the more Labour seems to shrink. As almost every economic, social and public sector indicator flashes red,...
D avid Cameron’s government feels so long ago. Seven years of almost constant Tory turmoil, upheaval in all the other parties, huge strikes and...
B oris Johnson is history. Or so hope Rishi Sunak, many other Tories, the sober parts of the media and most voters. Johnson’s terrible government,...
I n a democracy, who is allowed to vote – and why – are basic but always interesting questions. Especially in a democracy as old and bodged-about...
F or anyone who has grown up with the idea that the right dominates Britain, it can be a shock to discover that its members are often anxious or even...
L ast Saturday morning, it felt strange setting out to take part in the republican protest in London while knowing that its organiser had already...
T his country’s rate of inflation, the worst in western Europe, is everywhere in most people’s lives: in our anxious shopping and conversations,...
I f you’re a social conservative in Britain, these are the best of times and the worst of times. They are the worst because, as the rightwing press...
W e are representing families, traditional owners and senior cultural leaders in Mparntwe. We stand together to condemn the media representation of...
T ony Blair’s triumphant time as opposition leader was more than 25 years and several political eras ago. But it still casts a huge shadow over our...
I n some ways, this has been a good year so far for Rishi Sunak. His young government has produced a succession of solutions to problems that have...
The prime minister is pitting the public against trade unionists — forgetting that, in millions of cases, they are the same people, says Guardian...
Without the optimism that carried Labour to power in the 90s, the party now has to go big on reform, says the Guardian columnist Andy Beckett