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The Latest Articles by Jonathan Freedland

The Problem of Democracy by Shadi Hamid review – democracy and its discontents

Should US foreign policy demand liberalism, as well as free elections?

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Our European neighbours now look at post-Brexit Britain and say simply: nein, danke

From political dysfunction to economic turmoil, the evidence of Brexit as a great problem-creator is all around, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Harry and Meghan are still giving Britons what they really want from royalty: cruel spectacle

You don’t have to be a fan of the couple to see that monarchy exacts too high a price – and abolition would do the Windsors a favour, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Coup attempts in Germany and the US confirm it: the key terror threat is the far right

The danger of violent jihadism persists, but the growing menace is from racist extremists, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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The reality of Brexit is biting hard. Poor people are suffering most – and now everyone can see it

We are paying £6bn more just to eat. After years of abstract debate, the human consequences of our exit become clearer by the day, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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The heroic people of Iran are teaching the west a song too many of us have forgotten

Iran’s football team showed solidarity with those demanding freedoms we take for granted, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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‘A small victory against erasure’: the three minutes that bring an exterminated Jewish past to life

A new documentary extends 200 seconds of home-movie footage shot in Poland in 1938 into a forensic examination of a community obliterated by the Nazis

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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