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The Latest Articles by Jonathan Freedland

A stark lesson for Keir Starmer from the budget: the Tories won’t just lose, you have to beat them

Labour’s path to victory was clear when Truss was in office. A politically cunning autumn statement has made it harder, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

Bono review – U2 frontman’s pared back ‘solo in Soho’ show is a triumph

Forsaking the stadium for the Palladium, Bono’s intimate show retraced his past to prove that his unforgettable fire still burns

The Guardian - UK

The Democrats’ midterms performance shows how Trump – and his imitators – can be beaten

Joe Biden’s party abandoned timidity and neutered the Republican right. Labour should take heed, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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The winner of the midterms is not yet clear – but the loser is Donald Trump

Trumpers fared badly in swing states as Biden bucked the historical trend and avoided heavy defeats in his first term

The Guardian - UK

The US is on a knife-edge. The enemy for Trump’s Republicans is democracy itself

Most GOP candidates in these elections refuse democracy’s most basic tenet: accepting the voters’ verdict, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak is the best choice the Tories could have made – but Labour can still beat him

Starmer may have preferred to face Mordaunt or Johnson, but the new PM has plenty of vulnerabilities, says the Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

Truss has discredited high-octane, free-market economics – perhaps for ever

Trussonomics, and Brexitism, have proven the dangers of trying to turn rightwing ideology into reality

The Guardian - UK

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The markets have taken back control: so much for Truss’s Brexit delusion of sovereignty

This is the biggest humiliation of Britain since Suez, a reminder that no government can ignore reality, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

Fair play to Truss: stripped of competence or compassion, her extremism is refreshingly clear

This is how bad governments die - with the mask fallen away, their worst face revealed, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer can lock the imploding Tories out for a decade – if he gets the message right

Labour has a brief window to sear a narrative into the public’s mind, so the Conservatives are saddled with this crisis for years, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have made a declaration of class war

This unofficial budget is morally indefensible, economically reckless and so risky it suggests a political death wish, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

Once even Jews would utter the word ‘Jew’ in a whisper. Now it is up in lights

The fate of Jewish people is to be seen through a lens clouded by centuries of myth and imaginings. For a new play, I spoke to 12 British Jews whose stories illustrate the painful – and even bloody – consequences

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Elizabeth bound our nation. Without her, will there even be a UK to reign over?

She was a priceless diplomatic asset and spoke with the moral weight of the wartime generation. Now we must confront the future without her, says Jonathan Freedland

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The Queen’s death will shake this country deeply – she was a steady centre amid constant flux

The one element in our collective life that stayed reliably the same has gone. We enter a new future now

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Liz Truss’s worst nightmare is the lingering shadow of her predecessor

Boris Johnson has likened himself to Cincinnatus, who turned to farming after leaving Rome but returned as a dictator

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Once the world had Gorbachev and Mandela. Now we have Trump, Johnson and Truss

The Soviet leader’s death is a reminder that the ‘great man theory’ of history is truer than we might like to think, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Be warned: inflation could take British politics to a very dark place indeed

If Britain ends up in a recession, public anger will be looking for an outlet, says the Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

Brexit is a mood, not a policy – and Liz Truss captures it in all its delusion

Rishi Sunak is the leaver of the two, but Truss tells Tory members the right fairytales – and they may reward her for it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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The next PM may well be from an ethnic minority. That’s a big deal – and a challenge for Labour

If Starmer’s party is seen as one that values minorities only when they need protection, solid sources of votes will dry up, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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‘I will not back down’: Biden vows executive action if Senate cannot pass climate bill – as it happened

President urges Senate to pass legislation amid Manchin opposition

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