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After a decade of cuts, local government is in tatters, and some town halls are facing bankruptcy, says Guardian columnist John Harris
Nearly 80 years on from its creation, the benefits system has been exposed by Covid to be broken beyond repair, says Guardian columnist John Harris
Multinationals can just about cope with the new UK-EU trading rules, but independent businesses are mired in problems, says Guardian columnist John...
Keir Starmer can skewer Boris Johnson in the Commons, but competence isn’t enough. He has to spell out a vision, and soon, says Guardian columnist...
A view of people as rule-breaking chancers is being used as a distraction from the Conservatives’ failures. They mustn’t get away with it, says...
All the ‘tough’ talk ignores who is always targeted in such crackdowns, and those who still need help, says Guardian columnist John Harris
The pandemic has sparked a shouting match. Instead we should be working out how to keep everyone in education safe, says Guardian columnist John...
Boris Johnson’s run of bad decisions on Brexit and Covid have their roots in a saga of elite entitlement and superficiality, says Guardian columnist...
Coronavirus has left Britain’s musicians struggling to survive, says Guardian columnist John Harris
Thatcher helped turn the Tory right into a force for instability – and now we are all living with the consequences, says the Guardian columnist John...
The pandemic has badly hit people who were already facing financial hardship. Guardian columnist John Harris met some of them: it was a sobering...
After the pandemic we’ll seek these places of shared experience. But by then many will have gone to the wall, says Guardian writer John Harris
A new kind of community politics – ‘flatpack democracy’ – has emerged in towns left to fend for themselves by the centre, says Guardian...
A vaccine will start to ease our collective anxiety, but the reasons why Covid-19 hit the UK hard will not be going away, says columnist John Harris
If a country’s best minds have to depend on surveys, it clearly has a problem, says Guardian columnist John Harris
We were promised an era of civic rebirth. Instead, Covid has shown how obsessively Westminster clings to power, says Guardian columnist John Harris
The UK coronavirus crisis – even more so in its second phase – is all about basic inequalities – and lockdown makes these worse, says Guardian...
Dealing with Covid is hard enough for cities like Manchester. Centralised power and a shambolic government make it even harder, says Guardan columnist...
Attitudes in Labour’s post-industrial heartlands have a lot more in common with metropolitan Britain than you may think, says the Guardian columnist...
The Tories have been increasing police powers and bringing in laws by diktat. When will the left speak up? asks Guardian columnist John Harris
For the right, exploiting prejudices is all that counts, says Guardian columnist John Harris
After years of grim acceptance, people have glimpsed a different way of life, says Guardian columnist John Harris
At the heart of a climate emergency bill lies a simple but powerful notion: a citizens’ assembly, says Guardian columnist John Harris
Brexit and the pandemic have fuelled fresh calls for Scottish independence. For Westminster, the battle may already be lost, writes Guardian columnist...