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Andy Burnham faces growing calls from Left to hit London with new homes tax up to £7.5bn

Hundreds of thousands of Londoners could be left paying up to £1,200 more a year under the controversial reforms

Evening Standard · Aug 26

Pensioners should be taxed more to address rising costs of ageing population, Burnham told

Andy Burnham has refused to rule out tax rises in the autumn Budget

The Independent UK · Aug 25

Do populists always crash the economy?

Argentina is counting the cost of its turn to Javier Milei. Politicians from Donald Trump to Giorgia Meloni and Nigel Farage will be closely watching what happens next

The Guardian - UK · Oct 26, 2025

Heading isolated and paranoid into the night, these are the voters our politicians created

So many citizens are angry and cynical, like Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle. I wish our leaders would ask themselves why, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK · Jan 4, 2024

The Reith lectures miss the point. Politics fails when it avoids the issue of class

Questions of identity are overwhelming our sense of solidarity. It’s no wonder people are disillusioned

The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2023

The week in audio: Naga Munchetty; The Reith Lectures; Help, I Sexted My Boss; Now You’re Asking– review

From the surreal return of Boris Johnson at the Covid inquiry to sex etiquette at the theatre, it’s been a strange old week

The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2023

The ‘blue wall’ home counties are falling out of love with the Tory party

The Liberal Democrats believe they can seize the affluent, pro-remain Conservative heartland at the next election

The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2023

How education became the new faultline in British politics

A growing number of voters are graduates and they are becoming less likely to back the Conservatives, threatening to redraw the country’s electoral map

Financial Times · Apr 30, 2023

No 10 refuses to say when Rishi Sunak first declared wife’s shareholding in childminder agency – as it happened

PM’s spokesperson also refuses to say when updated register of ministers’ interests would be published

The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2023

Firefighters ‘photographed dead bodies of women in car accidents and shared on WhatsApp’

Male firefighters allegedly took explicit pictures and made comments about the type of underwear women were wearing

The Independent UK · Jan 31, 2023