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Despite what the UK right will tell you, appeasing bond markets has actually led to instability

Austerity has benefitted bond traders but impoverished UK society and led to the rise of populism. Is it right that we carry on adhering to their interests, asks Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Labour is living in a fool’s paradise if it thinks it has plenty of time to turn Britain around

Going into 2026, the economy has little forward momentum and things may get worse before they get better, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

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As dark financial clouds gather, Labour has to heed its past: when it chooses austerity, it loses elections

Those who insist on spending cuts are those who are never hurt by them. Time to be brave – and take a new tack, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Labour peer David Lipsey found dead after swimming in River Wye

Former journalist and adviser to Callaghan government, 77, was pulled from water on Tuesday

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Keir Starmer’s muddled politics are reaching their limit. It’s time for him to make a choice

Veer left or double down on the right? Either way, the prime minister needs to commit and sell it to an impatient electorate, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Five things you didn’t know about Black British cultural history

From northern soul to rugby league beef, here’s what I learned while writing We Were There

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How previous prime ministers handled the ‘special relationship’

Winston Churchill coined the phrase to describe what has become an enduring diplomatic priority, but relationships between leaders have varied.

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When Thatcher took performance lessons from Laurence Olivier, it changed the course of her political destiny

The PM’s makeover collaboration was kept a closely guarded secret for fear it would hurt her ‘ordinary housewife’ image, says writer and broadcaster Tim Walker

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Why the Labour government has run aground so quickly – and what it needs to do to get back on course

Many prime ministers at some point find themselves in a situation where nothing they do seems to go right. It happened to Jim Callaghan in the late 1970s, to Gordon Brown in the 2000s and to every Conservative prime minister since 2019.

The Conversation

Peter Jay obituary

Economic journalist and broadcaster labelled ‘the cleverest young man in England’

The Guardian - UK

Peter Jay, journalist and diplomat, dies aged 87

Tributes paid to one of the UK’s foremost economics commentators who was also ambassador to Washington

The Guardian - UK

Why Rachel Reeves can’t seem to make her ‘£22bn black hole’ narrative convincing

Rachel Reeves had hardly stepped down from the dispatch box to make her first big statement as chancellor of the exchequer before facing a furious backlash. She had claimed to have discovered a £22bn hole in public finances upon taking office and was using it to explain why the new…

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If Rachel Reeves hikes capital gains tax, she’ll be more in line with Nigel Lawson than Gordon Brown

With Labour heavily predicted to win the upcoming UK election, there has been much talk about future tax plans.

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Own a piece of Rolling Stones history as a Keith Richards stage-played 1972 Fender Telecaster Custom goes up for auction

And it will be joined by a battered and bruised Vox wah pedal that Jimi Hendrix used live and in the studio

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OPINION - Record-low Tory poll explains why there (probably) won't be a May election

Cast your mind back – if you can – to September 1978. Jim Callaghan announced he would not call an early election (which he might have won), Pope John Paul I died after 33 days of papacy and the Commodores were number one with their hit, 'Three Times A Lady".

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After 14 years of Tory misrule, voters will crave a fresh start. That may be a blessing for Starmer – or a curse

British politics has been drained of all credibility. The Labour leader could turn low expectations to his advantage – for a time, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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OPINION - I'm addicted to old BBC election night broadcasts — this is what I've learnt

On reflection, David Owen was probably too “leading man handsome” to help the SDP break the mould of British politics. That’s right, I’ve been re-watching old BBC election night broadcasts again. This time, it’s back to the Seventies and Eighties for Ted Heath’s miscalculation, Jim Callaghan’s sunny (albeit misplaced) optimism…

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What a load of rubbish! Thousands of bin bags litter London streets as strike extended for two weeks

6ft high piles of rubbish in echoes of the winter of discontent

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History suggests that Rishi Sunak is doomed to join the ‘tail-end Charlie’ club

There’s an incredibly strong pattern of failure among prime ministers coming to office when their party has been dominant for a long period

Evening Standard

OPINION - Rishi Sunak faces a sea change from voters... can he turn the tide?

Two-thirds of voters say “it is time for a change” at the next election, writes Keiran Pedley

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Sunak and Hunt face a rerun of the 70s’ winter of discontent. It didn’t end well then

Ted Heath and Jim Callaghan paid a big price for taking on the trade unions, and once again voters are blaming the politicians

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Get Matt Hancock out of here: these are the political diaries worth reading

For windows on the corridors of power that were actually written contemporaneously, read this selection of books by MPs from left and right

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This winter of discontent will harden the feeling that the Tories have broken Britain

The cabinet is taking a dangerous gamble when it calculates that the public will blame the unions, not the government, for an advent calendar of strikes

The Conversation

Winter of discontent: how similar is today's situation?

The UK government is battening down the hatches for a wave of strikes in December and January. Railway workers, nurses, ambulance workers, civil servants and postal staff are all set to take industrial action in the coming weeks in protest at wages not keeping up with inflation, with teachers’ and…

Manchester Evening News

Who is the shortest-serving UK Prime Minister following the resignation of Liz Truss?

Liz Truss managed just 44 days in office before announcing her resignation

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