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Kwasi Kwarteng forgot that radicalism needs to be matched by credibility

As shadow chancellor I always remembered a crucial truth: the markets do not like surprises.

By John McDonnell

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Keir Starmer needs to deliver the speech of a lifetime

Keir Starmer needs to deliver the speech of a lifetime

Martin Fletcher

The UK is heading for an economic calamity

Duncan Weldon

The real cost of Liz Truss’s energy plan is dizzying

Big egos and cringe pitches: Make Me Prime Minister is The Apprentice for politics

Anoosh Chakelian

Giorgia Meloni’s post-fascist party triumphs in the Italian election

Giorgia Meloni’s post-fascist party triumphs in the Italian election

Jeremy Cliffe

Is Liz Truss trying to lose the next election?

Jonn Elledge

Quickfire

Get ready for the next housing crisis: negative equity

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Get ready for the next housing crisis: negative equity

James Ball

Keir Starmer is wrong to oppose proportional representation

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Keir Starmer is wrong to oppose proportional representation

Neal Lawson

Politics

Labour must come up with its own plan for growth

The shadow chancellor’s desire to win the public’s trust means Labour will be under even more pressure to constrain spending.

By Freddie Hayward

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A fight for electoral reform threatens Labour unity

A fight for electoral reform threatens Labour unity

Anoosh Chakelian

The next Tory leadership contest has already begun

John Oxley

British voters move left on the economy, as Liz Truss drags it to the right

The most influential people in Keir Starmer’s Labour

Rachel Wearmouth

Labour must “face reality” on the energy crisis and back fracking, says GMB boss

Labour must “face reality” on the energy crisis and back fracking, says GMB boss

Rachel Wearmouth

Commons Confidential

Why some Tories are hoping for a Labour landslide

Kevin Maguire

From Our Writers

Anoosh Chakelian

As Britain faces a hard winter, the 1 per cent will get richer

Tomiwa Owolade

Why we should celebrate British sentimentality

Paul Mason

The tax cut for top earners isn’t just immoral – it won’t work

India Bourke

The Tory “attack on nature” will undermine UK security

Ideas

Would there still have been climate change under socialism?

Leigh Phillips

Silence reigns

Rory Scothorne

Red love, for all

Red love, for all

Erin Maglaque

What is to be done about money?

Geoff Mann

Writing in the age of Big Data

Ryan Ruby

Metaverse in retrograde

Metaverse in retrograde

Justin EH Smith

World

The war in Ukraine has tipped the balance of power in Russia’s relationship with India

India has increased its influence by criticising Moscow while continuing to do business with it.

By Emily Tamkin

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From the US, the UK's economic policy appears senseless

From the US, the UK’s economic policy appears senseless

Ed Price

Vladimir Putin’s draft order prompts panic in Russia

Ido Vock

The dangerous logic behind Vladimir Putin’s speech

Katie Stallard

“For the long haul”: Ursula von der Leyen doubles down on support for Ukraine

Ido Vock

Using nuclear weapons won't solve any of Putin's problems

Using nuclear weapons won’t solve any of Putin’s problems

Lawrence Freedman

The world needs an energy revolution – but renewables alone will not be enough

Bruno Maçães

Books and Culture

Hilary Mantel’s death is an incalculable loss to our national life and literature

The late novelist’s extraordinary talent was to take our collective history and make it new.

By Erica Wagner

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What the Huxleys got wrong

What the Huxleys got wrong

John Gray

Nick Cave’s second coming

Catherine Called Birdy: The secret diary of a medieval teen

David Sexton

Marcus Mumford lets go of shame

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

The Philip Pullman affair shows social media is where good arguments go to die

The Philip Pullman affair shows social media is where good arguments go to die

Johanna Thomas-Corr

Crossfire: a preposterous shoot-out drama for the Mumsnet generation

Rachel Cooke

Podcasts

Great Expectations | China Under Xi

Great Expectations | China Under Xi

What does India really think of Russia? With Raji Rajagopalan

What does India really think of Russia? With Raji Rajagopalan

Audio Long Read: The making and meaning of Giorgia Meloni

Audio Long Reads

Audio Long Read: The making and meaning of Giorgia Meloni

Jeremy Cliffe

The Tories’ plan to make the rich richer

The Tories’ plan to make the rich richer

Business and Economics

The government ignores striking dockers at its peril

Will Dunn

Kwasi Kwarteng’s plan for growth was a bad idea 50 years ago

Emma Haslett

Kwarteng hands FTSE bosses a £34m tax break

Kwarteng hands FTSE bosses a £34m tax break

Emma Haslett and Will Dunn

Bruce Daisley: “Twitter wasn’t set up to be about anger and rage”

Oscar Williams

Why Amazon is raising the price of Prime in a cost-of-living crisis

Oscar Williams

Financial markets have rejected the Tories’ economic vandalism

Financial markets have rejected the Tories’ economic vandalism

Will Dunn

Spotlight on Policy

"We’re touchy about the term ‘managed decline’”: Joanne Anderson on being mayor of Liverpool

Regional Development

“We’re touchy about the term ‘managed decline’”: Joanne Anderson on being mayor of Liverpool

Jonny Ball

Kwasi Kwarteng’s “mini-Budget” benefits men more than women

Regional Development

Kwasi Kwarteng’s “mini-Budget” benefits men more than women

Mary-Ann Stephenson

How a lack of data is stymying climate action in cities

Energy and Climate Change

How a lack of data is stymying climate action in cities

Alis Daniela Torres, Jamie Cudden and Anna Williams

The Policy Ask with Shaun Spiers: “Grenfell is a terrible reminder of the cost of deregulation”

Energy and Climate Change

The Policy Ask with Shaun Spiers: “Grenfell is a terrible reminder of the cost of deregulation”

Spotlight

Environment

Five reasons Jacob Rees-Mogg is unfit to tackle the climate emergency

India Bourke

Can we save the Amazon rainforest from environmental destruction?

Nick Ferris

Mapped: UK fracking licences could impact one in four Tory constituencies

Mapped: UK fracking licences could impact one in four Tory constituencies

Ben van der Merwe and India Bourke

Save the planet by saving the pandas

Martha Gill

For king and countryside: William must surpass his father’s green legacy

India Bourke

Fracking and oil drilling doesn't just fail Britain, it fails the world

Fracking and oil drilling doesn’t just fail Britain, it fails the world

India Bourke

The Long Read

Notes on a mourning nation

Notes on a mourning nation

On the streets of London after the Queen’s death, our writer found grief, apathy – and a startling sense of…

By Matthew Engel

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Going for broke

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Notes on a mourning nation

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The making and meaning of Giorgia Meloni

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The last days of Roger Federer

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